The Heir by Kiera Cass

The Heir by Kiera Cass
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Pages: 356
Rating: 💜💜💜
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Eighteen years ago, America Singer entered the Selection and won Prince Maxon's heart. Now the time has come for Princess Eadlyn to hold a Selection of her own. Eadlyn doesn't expect her Selection to be anything like her parents' fairy-tale love story...but as the competition begins, she may discover that finding her own happily ever after isn't as impossible as she's always thought.


I'm still can't decide if I want to give 2 or 3 stars. The further from the day I read this book the more I want to rate it down, so I guess we'll see!

I really didn't enjoy this book for the sole reason that Eadlyn was the most bland and insufferable character I've read about for a while. She was constantly reminding everyone she was better than them, she was shocked when people didn't like her and she acted like a brat most of the time. She didn't even want to do this Selection and was determined to make it fail. She was absolutely horrible in every single respect.

However there were three things that rescued this book:

1. The Selected: So some of them were stupid, but after they'd been eliminated the remaining boys were  adorable. There was Henri who was so sweet, Ean who was intriguing and Kile who I want to win so bad.
2. The old characters: America, Maxon and all their friends were my favourite part of this book. I loved that they were all still close to each other and that they supported each other, no matter what had happened in the past. I loved seeing the characters that made me fall for this series, even though they are much older now.
3. The family: So obviously America and Maxon are my babies but I also loved the other family members. Kaden was about ten times smarter than Eadlyn will ever be; Ahren was incredible and actually followed his heart and Osten was an incredibly loyal little rascal.

It's safe to say I won't be reading The Crown after reading this book. I don't think I'll survive another 300+ pages of Eadlyn; I even found out who she ends up with and I'm not surprised (although I'm a little annoyed). I now understand why everyone wishes this series stopped at book 3, because this book definitely ruined it for me.