I had the same issues with every book in the series. America and Maxon were so dramatic, and the same plot point of America deciding that her feelings for Maxon weren't enough to make her want to be a princess was used in every book.

However, these books are super fun, quick and addicting reads.

This series is okay but it can be quite silly in places. I like the original main character but the daughter we follow in the sequel is quite annoying.

<i>The One</i> goes some way towards redeeming a series which had a wholly underwhelming second installment, but it's still not good enough.

Considering my main complaint about <i>The Elite</i> was that it didn't explore the world successfully and the girls are constantly raced off to safe rooms, I thought that the direct introduction of August and Georgia - two of the rebels - would make this my favourite installment by far. In all honesty, it just made everything far more frustrating. The bits which should be savoured are rushed and scenes which should take up a couple of paragraphs are drawn out for pages and page. Characters we're only briefly introduced to get murdered and we're supposed to feel emotional, while other characters we've known for books are killed off with no rhyme or reason in some of the most unemotional death scenes I've ever read.

When Maxon eventually tires of America's selfishness and tries to break up with her, it adds some much needed depth to a relationship which has been pretty meaningless since book one, but then Cass decides to cop out and avoid writing any kind of conflict between them, inserting a spontaneous rebel attack instead. Of course. Nothing like the threat of death to make you completely forget that your loved one has potentially been unfaithful to you since the day you met her...

Again, one of the only pros of this book is the fact that it's such a damn fast read. I could hardly put it down and read it in two sittings, making it the perfect title to choose to read during The Reading Rush. I'm probably going to read the next two books in the series, if only to finish it off, but it is a little stupid that their entire existence spoils the outcome of America's Selection. This series is the definition of anti-climactic.

This book has action right from the word go as the violence is stepped up another notch. Obviously we know going into this one that this is going to be the end of The Selection process and we will finally find The One, Maxon's wife and future queen. There is quite a lot of unpleasantness in this book though and so I am glad that America showed her true strength in the last book because I wouldn't have thought she would be able to handle things in this book otherwise. By the time i got this far in the trilogy, I really felt like I knew the characters and so when some of them come under threat, I felt genuine emotion and shed a tear or two. I really enjoyed this conclusion and I can see why people felt that this series should have stayed as a trilogy.

I am not going to be reviewing this book, but thank you for the approval.

Was a 'did-not-finish' after a few chapters. I just could not get into the story and the series as a whole.