The Selection Stories: The Queen & The Favorite (The Selection, #0.4, #3.5) -

Kiera Cass

Harper Teen

2015

240 páginas

8h 0m

ISBN-10: 0062351222

Two novellas set in the captivating world of Kiera Cass's #1 New York Times bestselling Selection series, now available in print for the first time! In The Queen and The Favorite, discover untold stories from the lives of two of the Selection series' most beloved characters.

Before America Singer's story began, another girl came to the palace to compete for the hand of a different prince. In The Queen, follow Prince Maxon's mother, Amberly, through the Selection that made her a beloved queen.

Marlee Tames came to the palace to win Prince Maxon's heart—but her own heart had other ideas. The Favorite goes behind the scenes of Marlee and Carter's life together, from the fateful night their secret was discovered to the events at the end of The One.

Resenhas (15)

3 (Bom)

When I started reading this book my expectation was astronomic, but honestly, I didn’t enjoy very much. The selection series is strongly responsible for my newly discovered passion for books, but maybe just like "dreamology" now that I read other books it may not shine as bright. Honestly, I ended reading because I don’t like to have it in my reading tracker reminding me that I didn’t finish and kinda for respect for the original series.
The only story I really enjoyed was Marlee’s because I loved the way it was written going back and forth between the present and the past and I loved to know more about her relationship with Carter.
I also was surprised by my enjoyment with the part about Celeste because it showed her in 3 totally different stages of the selection. During the first one, she was really confident and upright, although you can see that inside she is not as confident as on the outside. In the second part she is in serious doubt about what to do and how she is, and what is the healing to do to win the selection. In the third part that was when I started liking her in the original books, she is soooo different, she is definitely a better person, not perfect of course, but better.
So that is basically it about this book. I wouldn’t read it again, but it is okay.
OBS.: My disappointment with this book just made me be more sure that I probably won’t read the continuation of the series about America’s daughter