Jaclyn’s Review: The Heir by Kiera Cass

The Heir (The Selection #4)
written by Kiera Cass
published by HarperTeen, 2015

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Did I enjoy this book? This one was tough. I wanted to love this book because I loved the first three books in this series, but I just couldn’t. I loved the idea of this book; I loved the purpose of this book. I HATED the main character. Sometimes there are characters that are written to be hated, because you need to hate them. Sometimes there are characters that are written to be hated, because they will be redeemed. This character is just AWFUL. I hated her. Hating her made the book very difficult to like. There was no redemption; she never got any better. I read the book because I wanted to know where the plot went, but it was hard to get past the main character.

 

 

Would I recommend it? Honestly, you could stop after book 3 and be quite content. I won’t tell you NOT to read this book, but I really struggled with it.

 

 

About the book – from Goodreads: Princess Eadlyn has grown up hearing endless stories about how her mother and father met. Twenty years ago, America Singer entered the Selection and won the heart of Prince Maxon—and they lived happily ever after. Eadlyn has always found their fairy-tale story romantic, but she has no interest in trying to repeat it. If it were up to her, she’d put off marriage for as long as possible.

But a princess’s life is never entirely her own, and Eadlyn can’t escape her very own Selection—no matter how fervently she protests.

Eadlyn doesn’t expect her story to end in romance. But as the competition begins, one entry may just capture Eadlyn’s heart, showing her all the possibilities that lie in front of her . . . and proving that finding her own happily ever after isn’t as impossible as she’s always thought.

 

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