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The Selection
Fantasy
The Selection
Book 1 of the The Selection series
336 pages · First published 2012
In the rigid caste society of Illéa, thirty-five young women are chosen to live at the palace and compete for Prince Maxon’s hand. America Singer wants no part of the glamorous Selection because entering it means leaving Aspen, the lower-caste boy she secretly loves, and pursuing a crown she has never desired. Meeting Maxon complicates her assumptions about both the prince and the life available to her, while rebel attacks make palace luxury far less secure than it appears. Kiera Cass opens the YA series with a blend of dystopian class structure, reality-show-style competition, royal romance, and a heroine whose unwanted opportunity begins changing what she imagines for her future.
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Violence, weapons, and peril · Mild frightening/intense material
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