Author: Kiera Cass
Publisher: Harper
Teen (2013)
Pages: 59
Format: eBook
Description:
Before thirty-five girls were chosen to compete in the
Selection...
Before Aspen broke America's heart...
There was another girl in Prince Maxon's life...
Review:
I can’t tell you how
much I truly wanted to read this one and how eager, now even more, I am for The
Elite! I read The Selection not a long ago and I not only loved the concept and
America’s passionate and friendly personality, as I also felt mesmerized by
the way Kiera tells her story. Her writing is so amazingly beautiful and easy
and simple and natural that I just couldn’t way not a teeny tiny little bit
longer to read more from her.
This novella was a
surprise as I actually started to really like Maxon. He’s so much more real
here, we can seriously sense his insecurities towards the selection and
understand all the pressure he’s in, not just ‘cause of the contest and the
need to find a wife, but mostly due to his fathers expectations and behaviour
concerning him. In The Selection I think he came out a little too flat, but in
The Prince he genuinely shows himself and all of his limitations in his own
life—Daphne is a great example of precisely that. She was the perfect way out,
the easiest union, but Maxon’s father would never allow it… even if she would
be his son’s most wanted woman on the planet.
It was so awesomely
great to see the other side of so many key moments when America’s perspective
was the only one I knew. And it was even funnier to realize that some of the
things that America and the other selection girls thought of a couple of Maxon’s
reactions were, in fact, so wrong and so completely away from the truth—these
were definitely my favourite moments of this novella!
In overall, The
Prince is a very good addition to everyone who read and enjoyed The Selection
and wants to better understand what motivated Maxon and what was going on on
his life prior to the whole selection and wife thing. To someone like me who
didn’t quite felt convinced by this character, this is the one thing that’s going to change that—and to those who found in
Maxon a bright and sweet companion, this is the short story you won’t want to
miss.
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