The Selection

On one hand this book is not very good and does not make very much sense, but also it was very compelling and we couldn't stop listening to it and immediately, frantically put a hold on the next one in the series. So...there's that.

The Selection–basically The Bachelor for a prince to find a princess–is a great concept for a book. The worldbuilding around this dystopian future is very stupid and makes no sense and it's basically just handwaving to create set dressing for the Bachelor, I mean, Selection. Like it's 300 years in the future but there's no technology at all really, not even in the palace?! (Like I get it in the Hunger Games when the poorer people don't have anything but the Capitol has like holograms and shit. But here even the prince relies on sending messengers around with notes? There ARE phones but not like...cell phones? Like the palace seems to have like one land line that nobody uses. IT'S WEIRD.)

Also the caste system makes no sense and seems to leave out a lot of professions?!

But again...that's not really the point of this book. It's definitely a romance, not a dystopian.

Also it ends pretty abruptly. Having listened to the first 3 books I feel like they honestly should have been edited down into 1 book that tells the whole story of the Selection but whatever, nobody asked meee