The One
Kiera Cass, 2014
Romance Young adultScience fictionFantasy
Thirty-five girls, one prince, and a girl who never wanted a crown. A romance about choosing someone on purpose, then having to keep choosing.
Feels like longing, passion and hope. About love, identity and power.
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What it sounds like when someone wants the ordinary days too.
I want everything with you, America. I want the holidays and the birthdays, the busy season and lazy weekends. I want peanut butter fingertips on my desk. I want inside jokes and fights and everything. I want a life with you. Kiera Cass.Cass has described The Selection as 'The Bachelor meets The Hunger Games' — a dystopian kingdom where the prize is a prince rather than survival.
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The Heir
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The Selection
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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
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In a televised royal bride contest, a girl from the bottom caste weighs first love against a prince who is starting to matter.
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Questions readers ask
- What is The One like?
- Feels like longing, passion and hope. About love, identity and power.
- What should I read after The One?
- If you liked The One, try Defy Me (Tahereh Mafi), Heartless (Marissa Meyer) and A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire (Jennifer L. Armentrout).
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The ordinary moment that makes all the fighting worth it.
I want to remember to celebrate more. I want to remember to experience more joy. I want to allow myself to be happy more frequently. I want to remember, forever, this look on Aaron’s face, as he’s bullied into blowing out his birthday candles for the very first time. This is, after all, what we’re fighting for, isn’t it? A second chance at joy.
Defy Me · Tahereh Mafi
The moment someone tells you you've changed, and they're right.
Mind my words, Cheshire, I will have you banished from this kingdom if you tempt me.“ ”An empty threat from an empty girl.“ She rounded on him, teeth flashing. ”I am not empty. I am full to the brim with murder and revenge. I am overflowing and I do not think you wish for me to overflow on to you.“ ”There was a time“ – Cheshire yawned – ”when you overflowed with whimsy and icing sugar. I liked that Catherine better.
Heartless · Marissa Meyer
Desire that arrives as need, not want.
I need to feel your lips on mine.“ He planted his hands on the carriage wall, caging me in. ”I need to feel your breath in my lungs. I need to feel your life inside me. I just need you. It’s an ache. This need. Can I have you? All of you?
A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire · Jennifer L. Armentrout
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