UGH NO.


Okay so overall I can't help but be disappointed with this book because my favourite guy from the very start didn't win. I thought the end result was so predictable - I had figured out that it would probably happen literally the moment he showed up in the book, I had just kept a small hope it wouldn't - and because of that I just feel so blah. I also agree with everyone who said the romance suddenly magnified when they 'declared' their love. It was like one look and suddenly Eadlyn went a bit crazy, it was very strange and felt all a bit rushed, especially as there hadn't been that much interaction, in my view, in The Heir. I also think some of the guys whose characters had been built up were let down in The Crown -

Kile suddenly became way more romantic, I thought he lost a bit of himself suddenly when he started spouting off about building her things, Fox became a strong contender for me at the end of The Heir but suddenly he was a bit vapid and weird. And then Henry, my beloved Henri :( I loved him so much and he was, and is, a beautiful character. But it was like all of a sudden Eadlyn just kept pointing out so many things wrong with him rather than focusing on their connection which was obviously there. STUPID Eadlyn. I just really wanted Henri to win (I also think he should have been a bit more annoyed about Eadlyn duping him into an almost marriage and being 'in love' with Erik) I just can't buy Eadlyn and Erik, they just seemed so forced or something and I just can't. No.

I felt like the end of this book was very rushed and it seemed to take a while to get to a point and then all of a sudden everything happened at once. Also, I don't remember his Marid guy ever being mentioned in The Heir? He showed up out of no-where. There was so much information we were still getting such as the breakdown of August and Maxon's friendship, and then Lady Brice and it just seemed to spill out and I felt like throwing my hands up in the air and saying 'whoa, whoa, what?' Also Maxon's 'reveal' to Eadlyn at the end was a bit unnecessary.

I definitely came out of The Selection series a lot happier than I did with The Heir and The Crown. Long live the Queen, not.