In support of her new releases – and a growing fan base – Cass is just as visible as her books, these days.
#DIFFERENT SETTING ON THE BOOK THE ONE BY KIERA CASS SERIES#
I think the series has hit a real chord with teens and with a crossover adult audience because it’s so romantic, exciting, and suspenseful, and it’s not like anything else on the teen market.” “I fell in love with the book the first time I read it. “ The Selection was first pitched to me as The Hunger Games meets Cinderella meets The Bachelor, and it lived up to that pitch with its strong female lead, dystopian setting, fairy tale romance – and of course, the catty girl competition!” says Erica Sussman, executive editor at HarperTeen. The move would greatly help America’s lower-middle-caste family, but she would much rather ignore the pageantry and be with her secret true love, Aspen. America has been offered the opportunity to enter the Selection – a contest that gathers a group of teen girls winnowed by lottery from which young, handsome Prince Maxon will select a bride. Set in a post-WWIII United States (now called Illea), ruled by a royal family and regimented by a prescribed caste system, Cass’s tale stars 16-year-old America Singer. After a first printing of 24,000 and 13 trips back to press, The Selection now boasts 175,000 copies sold in all formats, while The Elite has already sold 90,000 copies of its initial 100,000-copy print run (in all formats) and has gone back to press four times. By May, it had charted on the New York Times bestseller list.įast forward a year: this spring has seen the release of a tie-in e-novella titled The Prince (March), the paperback reprint of The Selection (April) and the just-out hardcover of its sequel The Elite (May). The Competition of a Lifetime.” With a tagline that sounds like a prelude to “the most dramatic rose ceremony ever!” on TV’s The Bachelor, Kiera Cass’s April 2012 dystopian YA romance The Selection (HarperTeen) was off and running, buoyed by warm reviews, a dedicated Facebook page, and a spot on the IndieNext list for spring 2012. The Heir is recently released, and Cass has previously said there is a fifth book in the works.“35 Girls. The novels of Kiera Cass can be found online and in stores, at or Barnes and Noble, as well as many other places. She knows her audience very well, and if The Heir is anything like The One, it’ll take in all the different themes and hopefully be even better. She has been very consistent in her writing style, and the flow and transitions run smoothly. I think Cass is becoming a more accomplished writer. I felt a bit more separation between the different girls in the Selection and America this time around, especially Kriss, but otherwise even King Clarkson and Queen Amberly seemed very inexperienced or something. I was very excited to see all this.Īgain, the only downfall in my opinion is the way the characters sound to the reader, that they all sound the same. These are things we can relate to, these are things that make a story more than just a story. With The One, Kiera Cass aded all those extra facets, like the possibility of ties with Italy, how America puts herself in danger, what the relationship is like between the king and his only son. There is obviously more to a future nation than a prince. Now that Cass has added the politics and diplomacy, the danger, the possibilities of death to the mix, the story has gotten infinitely more interesting. The romance was a good start, I think, with a young adult series, but it was a little boring to me at first. But, I actually liked this one so much better.Ĭass finally started taking on bigger themes than romance. This novel has all the aspects of her previous novels: mystery, romance, politics, drama. The third of American author Kiera Cass’ Selection series has finally been finished, and I must say, I am at least a little bit excited for the fourth novel The Heir.Ĭass’ novel The One focuses on America Singer still fighting for her spot at the top of the Elite, the final group of girls vying for the hand of the prince.
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