The Crown
By Kiera Cass
Genre: Young Adult Dystopia
Personal Rating: 6/10

The last book in the Selection series. At lease I hope so. I do love this series and I was really looking forward to reading this spin-off. However, The Heir was quite disappointing, and this book wasn't much better. I feel like the concept of a selection is only interesting in the point of view of a contestant. Because reading about Eadlyn's selection was honestly very annoying at times. Though that may just be because she is an annoying character. Also, the romance that does eventually occurs between Edalyn and another character felt too sudden. There was another book to get to know him, but their feels just turned too abruptly to seem real to me. Kiera Cass's books usually lack in plot but make up for it with great characters and romance. This one didn't really have a great love story, and the plot was still flat.

There are some enduring characters in this book, but I found myself only wanting to hear about Maxon, America, Aspen, and basically just all the original characters. Even though we got two books to get to know the characters, I didn't feel any connection to any of them by the end of the book. This wasn't a terrible book, but it just fell short of what I hoped for. It didn't ruin the Selection series for me, but it didn't really add to it either.