The Heir
Kiera Cass, 2015
Romance Young adultPopular scienceScience fiction
A crown princess who never planned to marry is pushed toward a royal courtship, and toward the possibility that love might not be a cage. The voice is defiant and first-person, with a dramatic royal courtship that keeps tenderness and hope close.
Feels like defiance, hope and tenderness. About love and identity.
Who it’s for
You may like it if you enjoy YA romance built around identity and a princess who resists the path set for her. It is the fourth book in the series, so starting here means missing earlier context.
Why read it
Read it for a defiant heroine weighing love against duty, and for a romance that treats tenderness as a risk worth taking.
A page from the book
The moment independence starts to feel like a locked room.
I kept thinking that I couldn’t live my life for other people, that love was nothing but chains. And maybe it was, but so help me, I needed these chains. Kiera Cass.Kiera Cass has described The Selection as 'Cinderella meets The Bachelor.' The Heir is the fourth book in that series.
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The Selection
Kiera Cass, 2012
A low-caste girl is entered in a royal competition for the prince’s hand, where televised courtship, real feelings and rebellion collide.
The Elite
Kiera Cass, 2013
In a televised royal bride contest, a girl from the bottom caste weighs first love against a prince who is starting to matter.
The Crown
Kiera Cass, 2016
A princess who never planned to fall in love must choose a husband on live television while her country watches and her heart misbehaves.
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Questions readers ask
- Is The Heir for me?
- You may like it if you enjoy YA romance built around identity and a princess who resists the path set for her. It is the fourth book in the series, so starting here means missing earlier context.
- What is The Heir like?
- The voice is defiant and first-person, with a dramatic royal courtship that keeps tenderness and hope close. Feels like defiance, hope and tenderness. About love and identity.
- What should I read after The Heir?
- If you liked The Heir, try Red Rising (Pierce Brown), Empire of Storms (Sarah J. Maas) and The Summer I Turned Pretty (Jenny Han).
A taste of the feed
The only way to imagine stars is to compare them to a person.
Little Eo—a tiny girl hidden beneath a mane of red. Red like the rock around me, not true red, rust-red. Red like our home, like Mars. Eo is sixteen too. And she may be like me—from a clan of Red earth diggers, a clan of song and dance and soil—but she could be made from air, from the ether that binds the stars in a patchwork. Not that I’ve ever seen stars. No Red from the mining colonies sees the stars.
Red Rising · Pierce Brown
He proposes the way other people pick a fight.
The useless sentries in the watchtower are now all half in love with you,” he lied. “One said he wanted to marry you.” A low snarl. He yielded a foot but held eye contact with her as he grinned. “But you know what I told them? I said that they didn’t stand a chance in hell. Because I am going to marry you,” he promised her. “One day. I am going to marry you. I’ll be generous and let you pick when, even if it’s ten years from now. Or twenty. But one day, you are going to be my wife.” He shrugged. “Princess Lysandra Ashryver sounds nice, doesn’t it?
Empire of Storms · Sarah J. Maas
The summer that finally counts, after all the ones that didn't.
It was a summer I would never, ever forget. It was the summer everything began. It was the summer I turned pretty. Because for the first time, I felt it. Pretty, I mean. Every summer up to this one, I believed it’d be different. Life would be different. And that summer, it finally was.
The Summer I Turned Pretty · Jenny Han
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