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Overall I give this book 3 out of 5 stars.
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It’s hard not to appreciate the pace and steadiness of the pace throughout the series as a whole. No big time skips, no long crazy drawn out nothingness. There are a few more action sequences that made for some quick intense moments, but other than that it was standard for the story. The pacing in this book is along the same lines as the previous in the series. It fell through though and the enotions struck out instead. I think that if the emotions were built better or if the characters deaths meant more to the story it would have been a grand slam. It didn’t work and I didn’t feel anything strong for the duration of the book. Their deaths didn’t even mean that much to me, maybe one was shocking but the others just seemed forced to try to push emotion that didn’t even exist. Not characters I would consider important or integral to the story line though. This isn’t really a spoiler, but characters die. Ther were a few moments of intensity during an attack that caused me to catch my breathe, and of course a few sweet smiling moments with Maxon. It felt like the author was trying way too hard to force the reader to feel a certain way instead of letting it happen naturally. After crying through the end of the previous book I was hoping for some real amazing moments here.
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However, I feel like this sudden ability for America to make friends was contrived for a very specific reason, and as I said in the ‘characters’ section, I don’t really appreciate it.Įmotions in The One fell flat on their face for me. Friendships have been lacking up until this point… finally in this book America is able to make more friends and starts to understand people better. Family starts to play a bigger role than in the second book, it was nice to see people’s lives again from a more family perspective. It was nice to see love happening outside of the Selection too. I am happy to announce that the love triangle finally ends here (it sort of had to) and more meaningful romantic relationships are seen with the secondary characters. There’s love, as expected (but nothing R rated). The relationships in this book are becoming more solid. In my opinion it was done for one specific reason and that alone is enough to irritate me. I think that waiting so long to finally get to see these characters was a mistake though. I felt like I could see who the other characters were while I got to know more of the people we’ve met in other books on a more personal level. The characters around her though have really broken though their shells in this book and become more fleshed out and real.
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She’s stagnant and unwilling to grow or change throughout the course of her experience in the Selection (even though Aspen somehow thinks she’s changed?!?) and it’s annoying. I hate to say it, but the protagonist, America, has become one of my least favorite characters in the whole series. I love the world building that had been done in the story already, and this book really brings it into a better light and the world and it’s inhabitants suddenly make a lot more sense. It’s all turned into a quite complex society and it’s very lovely. In The One we also get to see more people from outside. The world in this series keeps expanding throughout the books and I love it! I love that it seems in every book we get to see a little more of what the world is like outside of the castle’s walls. Now, I couldn’t have guessed everything that was going to happen in the end, but it ended just as one would have expected it to… with a few shocks thrown in. Reading along through the series the story is leading to a very obvious conclusion though.
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That means that you have to read these books in order to know what is going on, and I’m completely fine with it, I prefer not to have too much retold over and over again in a series. The author expects that you’ve read the prior books and doesn’t waste time trying to retell what has already been done before. I’ll start by saying that the one thing I’ve appreciated about this series as a whole is that there isn’t a lot of fluff about remembering what happened in previous books. I started this book immediately after finishing “The Elite” because the emotions were just so high I had to know what happened next. “The One” is the third book in the Selection series.