The Heir, by Kiera Cass

Let's just take a minute to appreciate this gorgeous cover! It's so beautiful! While I was reading the book I used to stop for a couple seconds just to look at the cover.

I was so excited about this book when it finally arrived in Portugal (this month) I couldn't stop the smile in my face.

The Heir is the fourth book of The Selection series. The first three books are about Maxon's selection, when he met America and this one is about their daugher's, Eadlyn, selection.

"Just one more chapter...ups there were five more"

When I started reading the book my opinion about Eadlyn was that she was really annoying and a total diva. In my head I couldn't understand how the hell Maxon's and America's daugher could be so selfish and egocentric. That personality just didn´t make sense to me. Maybe the fact that she is the future and the first queen of Illea make her so cold, but that still don't justificate her behavior. However, I realized that America was just like her when she was at her age. America didn't want to be in the Selection in the beggining just like Eadlyn doesn't want to have one. That definitly made me smile for some reason.

The castes no longer exist but those who grew up without it are unhappy and frustrated and that was worrying Maxon and America. So they decided to make a new selection for Eadlyn just to distract people while they think about a solution to people's problems.

She hates that idea. She thinks that she is better off alone, that she doesn't need a man and she doesn't want to marry at the age of 18. But she sees that this is the only way to help her parents so she accepts doing it. But before that, she makes an agreement with her father: if she doesn't fall in the love in the end of the Selection then she doesn't have to marry. Three months and she is free again. At least was what she thought.

In the beggining she thinks in a thousands ways to make the Selected go home for their own, but then she stars to know them better and she finds herself confused about everything, specially her feelings.

"I'm not sure anyone knows what they're looking for until they find it."

And I realized that she has two sides and not just the selfish and cold one. She wants to look tough, cold, independent but most important she wants to look powerful. She wants to feel powerful and that's why she acts that way.

The other side is the one that she shows to her family and, at some point of the story, to some Selected. That's when we see how much she loves her family and when we see that after all she cares about them and about the Selected. And I love that about Eadlyn.

And I love how different the guys selected for the Selection are. I love the fact that one of them needs a translator, or the fact that other one lived in the palace already or even the fact the other one likes to talk about fashion as much as the princess. And I definitly love her brothers!

Other thing that I REALLY LOVE about the book is the memories from Maxon's Selection. That tiny moments when America, Maxon, Marlee or Aspen talked about some things that happened when Maxon and America met made me feel very happy. And Eadlyn's reaction just made me laugh.

I love The Selection series so much and I loved the fact that The Heir brought some memories from the other books back.

I loved this book so much!

I've been a fan since the first book came out in Portugal and I'm always so excited for the next one!

Can't wait for The Crown to arrive here!

"I only have one heart and I'm saving it"

This is the book's synopsis:

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.

P.S: The end of this book may or may not ruin your life.

Let's just say that when my mom came home and went to my room I had just finished the book and I was in the fetal position, holding my pillow against me and silently crying.

I need answers. I need the next book.

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