This is the first book in the series that I can fully emerge myself into the political views. (I might loathe the King more than Aspen, which is surprising in itself).

We finally get a worthy explanation of the southern and northern rebels, which in my mind are spot on America's political stand today. The northern rebels are peaceful; sure, they sometimes use force to get their point across, but they never kill or hurt anyone. Meanwhile, the southern rebels do everything in their means to hurt people, getting their points across because they hurt and kill people. 

America is also SO with the people. The kingdom is biased and built on a simplistic way of sorting people into ranks of how worthy they are. Rank 2 or 3 can buy their way out of a sentence but ranks 4 through 8 are forced to unfair jail times for petty crimes? Their laws are so incredibly foolish and make you wonder about human rights. The selected girls are property to the country, and any relations to other people is treason and punishable by death?? America knows this is wrong and doesn't blindly follow it because "it is how it is." I loved her during the sentencing; she stood her ground and tried to get the other girls to follow her leadership. 

I think everyone is able to guess how the selection ends, seeing this is a Young Adult Romance series but the end absolutely blew me away. I wanted to cry, aw and giggle with amusment at the same time. America is the leader this country needs; she is fair and is with the people, not the kingdom built on decades-old traditions and biases.