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Young developed novel by Kiera Cass

The Selection

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Author	Kiera Cass
Country	United States and China
Language	English language
Series	The Choice
Genre	Dystopian, Immature adult, Romance
Publisher	HarperCollins
Publication appointment	April fourteen, 2012
Media type	Print, ebook, audiobook
Pages	328 pages
ISBN	978-0-545-61494-8
Followed past	The Elite

The Pick is a immature adult novel past Kiera Cass commencement published on April 14, 2012 by HarperCollins. It is the first in a 5-volume series, followed by The Elite (2013), The One (2014), The Heir ^[1] (2015) and The Crown (May 2016). The last two take place xx years after the events in the starting time three.

In addition, four spin-off novellas were released. The first two, The Prince and The Guard, are narrated from the bespeak of view of two supporting characters. The Queen and The Favorite are prequels, focusing on two other supporting characters in the main series.^[2] All four novels were collected into i volume Happily Ever Afterward, including bonus content and epilogues.

Kiera Cass stated that she began writing The Selection later thinking about the differences between Esther and Cinderella, wondering if either of them were happy with how they ended up.^[iii] She also commented that she had written the volume "from first to finish", while her writing process for the other books differed. ^[four]

Plot [edit]

In a futuristic earth, society is divided into castes, with Ones existence the most prosperous, consisting of royals and elites, and Eights being mostly orphans/homeless, drug users, handicapped, and unemployable. America Singer is a 5, the "artist" degree (east.g. musicians, artists, actors, dancers, etc.). Since their prosperity depends on their desirability, Fives live a lower-class life. America, however, doesn't intendance, considering she enjoys entertaining, especially with a violin.

The prince of Illéa, Maxon Schreave, announces that he is following in his father's footsteps by belongings the Selection, a contest for the prince's hand in marriage and the crown. Despite pressure from her mother, America has no involvement in entering the competition, because she already has Aspen, her adjacent-door neighbor and surreptitious swain.

Later having a conversation with her mother which lets her keep most of her savings, America decides to surprise Aspen with dinner at her treehouse. This upsets him, equally he believes he should be the ane to provide for her, but is unable to because he is a Half-dozen (the servant caste) and has no ways of doing so since he already has to take intendance of his mother and siblings. In the end, Aspen decides to interruption up with America. The cease of their relationship, plus a ransom from her mother, leads America to enter the Selection and later on into the palace where she has to compete with xxx-four other girls to win the prince's heart. It also helps that her fourth dimension in the palace is accompanied by a small stipend sent to her family.

America easily makes friends (Marlee Tames, a Iv and a farmer) and enemies (Celeste Newsome, a 2 and a model) inside the start week of her stay, but her unique personality too catches the attending of the palace staff and the country. She still doesn't want to marry Prince Maxon, but a chance meeting in the gardens causes them to befriend each other. America still loves Aspen, only she gradually starts to fall in dearest with the prince. Maxon gives America his first kiss, and she begins to recollect that she could maybe marry him and forget Aspen. Rebels constantly attack the palace, which helps turn away the weak-earthed competitors, merely also makes things tense, especially when the rebels seem to be getting closer. Things also become tense in the contest when America starts to feel jealous of Maxon spending time with the other Selected.

America somewhen sees Aspen again when he enters the palace as a new fellow member of the guard. He was drafted into the army, where he earned height honors. Aspen's appearance confuses America's feelings even more and she begins to experience like she is still in love with him when he sneaks into her room to run across her. Having a romantic relationship with someone other than the prince during the competition is considered treason, and the punishment for treason tin exist every bit astringent as expiry. America sees Aspen in spite of the possible consequences.

After an attack from the rebels that leads to three of the Selected leaving, Prince Maxon decides to narrow down the girls from ten to six, calling them The Elite. When America'due south proper noun ends up among the half dozen called to stay, she realizes that she does accept feelings for Maxon and could see herself happy with him. With this in heed, she tells Aspen that she cannot continue their romantic liaisons. Instead of getting discouraged, Aspen claims that he will fight even harder to win her dear again over Maxon. The book ends with America finally realizing that she is exactly where she ought to be — among the Elite.

Characters [edit]

• America Vocalist – Like her ruby-red hair, America takes a rebellious attitude in concept. She tends to accept a short temper, which she inherited from her mother. Despite proverb she has no leadership skills, America isn't afraid to speak her heed. For example, when the palace was under rebel set on by the Southerners, Silvia ordered America's maids to bring nutrient and potable to the Selected. America, however, told her that the girls tin can take care of themselves, and ordered Anne to provide nutrient for the royal family only. She is very stubborn and persistent at times and may jump to conclusions a lot. She tin can besides be hypocritical but always apologizes if she is proven wrong. America's greatest fearfulness when entering the Selection was losing her individuality, something the other Selected girls would give up to accept over the throne. Overall, America is a very courageous person that, at the cease of the day, will ever realize the mistakes she might have caused and will do annihilation to make things correct. She is always afraid of losing someone she loves.
• Prince Maxon – When America first saw Maxon on Television receiver, she believed he was a shallow and stuck-upward person. Thus, when she meets him for one of the showtime times, she misunderstands his intentions and knees him in the groin. Notwithstanding, he forgives her and she later discovered that he was really very kind and a gentleman. The two eventually became friends, talking to each other, sharing secrets, and having fun together. America guided him to improve understand his kingdom and to assistance the lower castes. Maxon admires America for her stiff will, courage, kindness, and sense of honor. At the beginning of the Selection, he mentions that he wants to be around her and then that these features would rub off on him. He likes honesty and truth and he specifically asked America to trust him and his decisions and always exist open with him. He is very private: he doesn't similar when people interfere with his personal life (specially during the Selection where cameras follow his every step) or when the Elites gossip with each other about what he does or doesn't practice with them.
• Aspen Leger – Loves America and plans to marry her eventually but knows it is better for her to enter the Selection to help her family. America continuously has Aspen on her mind through several parts of the novel.^[5] He questions the relationship that she has with Maxon often because of the complicated past he has with America.^[5] After America is picked for the Choice, he is drafted into the army where he earns top honors in his class, and then promoted to a member of the Royal Guard at the palace.^[6]
• Marlee Tames – A member of the Elite and best friend of America. Marlee offset meets America Vocalizer as they are leaving for the palace. America and Marlee bail as shortly equally they board the airplane. The two quickly become friends and get along fine. Afterward Marlee's get-go engagement with Prince Maxon, Marlee loses interest in the prince just does noot want to go out the Selection because her clandestine young man, Carter Woodwork, is a baby-sit at the palace.
• Celeste Newsome – A fellow member of the Aristocracy, she is a Ii and worked as a model. Celeste holds a sense of superiority over the lower degree competitors like America Singer and Marlee Tames. She is confident and big-headed, knows how to use her beauty, and is willing to do annihilation to win, even breaking the rules of the Selection. She tricks Anna Farmer into slapping her subsequently criticizing her parents, which gets Anna kicked out of the competition (because violence confronting other competitors is confronting the rules). Earlier the interviews with Gavril Fadaye, Celeste tells America to trade dresses. When America refuses and calls Celeste "a deviling", Celeste rips 1 of her sleeves and walks away. Marlee and Emmica assist hibernate the ripped sleeve. She later apologizes to the other members of the Elite and becomes good friends with them.
• Kriss Ambers – A fellow member of the Elite. She has brown pilus and is a Three. America remarks that Kriss has grown closer to Maxon throughout the course of the book.
• Elise Whisks – A member of the Elite who has family connections to New Asia, a country that Illéa is at war with.
• Natalie Luca – A member of the Elite whose sis was killed by rebels. She is blonde and viewed by America as someone who has her head in the clouds. Carefree spirit.
• Clarkson Schreave – Rex of Illéa and Maxon's father, he is ofttimes seen as strict. The girls react with fear when he gets angry. America dislikes him. It was found out that he whipped Maxon Schreave.
• Amberly Schreave – Queen of Illéa and Maxon's female parent. She is from Honduragua and was a 4 until she married King Clarkson at the end of his Selection. She is described every bit kindhearted by America. She is very loved by all her people.
• America's family unit − America has iv siblings, Kenna, Kota, May, and Gerad. Everyone in the Singer family unit has grown far from Kota as he became selfish and vain when he moved out, as he was solely focused on making enough money through his art to movement upward in the degree system. Kenna got happily married to a human named James Orders, a Four, which made her a 4 too. After their spousal relationship, they had a baby daughter together who they named Astra, and shortly afterwards a baby boy who they named Leo. May and Gerad are the youngest in the Vocaliser family unit. They would paint with her father in his studio, although Gerad would adopt to boot a brawl around the house. Shalom Singer and Magda Singer are America's parents, and they play a bigger part in America's life than they permit on. America would never have been bribed into the selection if information technology was not for her stubborn and short-tempered mother, and America would never accept had courage and a thirst for modify if information technology were not for her father.

Reception [edit]

Publishers Weekly gave a positive review for the book, praising the character of America.^[7] The School Library Journal, MTV, and Booklist all gave positive reviews for The Selection ^[8] while in contrast, Kirkus Reviews panned the novel.^{[9] [x] [11]} The A.V. Club gave a mostly positive review, commenting that information technology "is something of a Hunger Games rip-off, but at least it's an entertaining one".^[12] Information technology won the 2017 Young Hoosier Volume Award (Centre Class).^[13]

Controversy [edit]

On January 12, 2012, a 1-star review of Cass' book, The Pick, was posted on the book reviewing site Goodreads^[14] and on the reviewer'due south blog. Afterwards on the same 24-hour interval, Kiera Cass' literary amanuensis, Elana Roth, posted a series of derogatory tweets on the social networking site Twitter. In a chat that Cass and Roth believed was private—merely was, in fact, public—Roth called the reviewer names, and both Roth and Cass collaborated on how best to bump the negative review downward and boost positive reviews by manipulating the ranking system themselves.^[15] The controversy sparked an article by Publishers Weekly speaking out against this practice and raised an outcry from multiple reviewers, bloggers, and publications against the cyber-bullying of nonprofessional reviewers past authors and agents.^{[16] [17] [xviii]}

Adaptations [edit]

In 2012, Cass announced that The CW had optioned the rights to her series with the intent of turning it into a television serial. The series would star Aimee Teegarden^[nineteen] as America Vocaliser, but the airplane pilot was not picked up to serial for the autumn 2012 television season.^{[twenty] [21]} A second pilot was ordered for the CW in 2013,^[22] starring Yael Grobglas equally the same graphic symbol^{[23] [24]} but was also not picked up past the network.^[25]

In 2015, Warner Bros. appear they had bought the picture show rights of the volume. Denise Di Novi and Alison Greenspan of DiNovi Pictures would produce alongside Pouya Shahbazian, with Katie Lovejoy to write the screenplay.^[26]

In April 2020, information technology was announced that Netflix would exist adapting the first volume. As stated in a Variety article, it is going to be directed by Saudi Arabian filmmaker Haifaa Al-Mansour, previously partnered with Netflix on 2018'due south Nappily Ever Later on. ^[27] Pouya Shahbazian and Denise Di Novi are set to produce, with Margaret French Isaac as executive producer.^[28]

References [edit]

1. ^ "Author Kiera Cass' Love Triangle Heats Up". RT Book Reviews. Retrieved May xvi, 2013.
2. ^ "'The Elite': Kiera Cass talks about the sequel to 'The Selection'". EW. Retrieved May 16, 2013.
3. ^ "Young Adult Writer Kiera Cass on The Selection". Teen Vogue. 27 April 2012. Retrieved May sixteen, 2013.
4. ^ Potts, Jessie (April 24, 2013). "Interviews: Kiera Cass and Cornelia Funke". USA Today. Retrieved May sixteen, 2013.
5. ^ ^{a b} agi, Dijana; Peter-Katalini, Jasna (2007), "MALDI-MS of Glycans", MALDI MS, Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, pp. 181–214, doi:10.1002/9783527610464.ch6, ISBN978-3-527-61046-4 , retrieved 2021-02-09
6. ^ Roth, Elana (25 March 2013). "The Aristocracy". Publishers Weekly. 260 (12): 71. ISSN 0000-0019.
7. ^ "Children'south Review: The Choice". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved May 16, 2013.
8. ^ "'The Pick' Is Another Precious stone In Dystopia'southward Crown". MTV. Archived from the original on October 21, 2013. Retrieved May 16, 2013.
9. ^ "Review: The Option". Booklist. Retrieved May xvi, 2013.
10. ^ "Review: The Selection". Schoolhouse Library Periodical (BookVerdict). Retrieved May 16, 2013.
11. ^ "Review: The Selection". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved May 16, 2013.
12. ^ "The Selection, a YA book and incipient CW series, looks for royal honey in a post-WWIII globe". The A.V. Club. Retrieved May 16, 2013.
13. ^ "Past Winners: Young Hoosier Book Award" (PDF). {{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
14. ^ "Goodreads: The Choice Review". Goodreads. Retrieved August vi, 2015.
15. ^ "Goodreads: The Pick Review". Goodreads. Retrieved Baronial 6, 2015.
16. ^ "Should Authors and Agents Weigh In on Citizen Reviews?". Publishers Weekly . Retrieved Jan 19, 2012.
17. ^ "Breaking the Silence: The Selection Debacle". The Midnight Garden. Archived from the original on 2014-08-06. Retrieved August 6, 2014.
18. ^ "Authors Behaving Badly". Pocketful of Books. Archived from the original on 2012-05-23. Retrieved May 23, 2012.
19. ^ Ausiello, Michael (February 23, 2012). "Exclusive: FNL's Aimee Teegarden to Headline CW's Hunger Games-esque Pilot The Selection". Television set Line . Retrieved July one, 2016.
20. ^ Goldberg, Lesley (May 17, 2012). "Upfronts 2012: CW Redeveloping 'Hunger Games'-Esque Pilot 'The Option'". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved November 11, 2012.
21. ^ "Pilot Update!". kieracass.com. October 1, 2012. Archived from the original on Oct iii, 2012. Retrieved November eleven, 2012.
22. ^ "Evolution Update: Wednesday, January 23". The Futon Critic. January 23, 2013. Retrieved July ane, 2016. Option, (The CW) – Elizabeth Craft and Sarah Fain take received the green calorie-free to produce a 2nd pilot for the project...
23. ^ Andreeva, Nellie (Feb 22, 2013). "CW Pilot 'The Selection' Casts Its Lead". Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved July 1, 2016.
24. ^ "The Selection' finds its new pb: Yael Grobglas replaces Aimee Teegarden as America Vocalizer". Hypable. February 23, 2013. Archived from the original on February 27, 2013. Retrieved February 24, 2013.
25. ^ Andreeva, Nellie (May 9, 2013). "'The Selection' Expressionless At The CW". Deadline Hollywood.
26. ^ Fleming, Mike Jr (April 22, 2015). "Warner Bros Buys YA Title 'The Selection', Sets Black List Scribe Katie Lovejoy To Adapt". Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved April 26, 2015.
27. ^ "Haifaa Al-Mansour Fix to Conform Popular YA Novel 'The Selection' for Netflix". IndieWire. 2020-04-11. Retrieved 2021-05-24 .
28. ^ Kroll, Justin (April 10, 2020). "Netflix to Adapt 'The Selection' Novel With Director Haifaa Al-Mansour (Exclusive)". Diversity (magazine). Retrieved April 18, 2020.

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