an unhinged recap of the selection (part 2)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.ย. 2024
- talking about the selection, the elite, and the one by kiera cass with good ol america, maxon, and aspen
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"Break my heart. Break it a thousand times if you'd like. It was only ever yours to break anyway" STILL has me down bad for as mediocre as this book series is
THAT was from THIS book!???
No i thought in the last one
me: i hate this series
that line:
me: nevermind
I read a spoiler
SPOILER
Why didn't she choose maxon???
@@yeriking3248 she does. The other two books are about their daughter.
they should get bridgerton's production team working on a netflix adaptation of this series bc wtf is all this chaos 💀
netflix has had the rights for like over 5 years at this point but the mess is so big nothing ever comes out of that lol
oh I bet that sh*t will slap I'm all for the costumes and drama🤣
Someone needs to send the books to Shonda Rhimes
THIS. Shonda will make my dreams come true
I would 100% watch just to be part of the madness.
The worst part of this series is undoubtedly the love triangle, it’s so annoying and unnecessary omg I cringed every time America was confused like girl are you being fr
By the end of the third book, when it was brought up to the final time, it was so unnecessary. There shouldn’t have been as big of a conflict as there was, and there was very little development afterwards.
to be fair i kind of understood clinging onto aspen as a safety net just in case she was kicked out, though she was selfish and manipulative
@@walter19a7 true, but she already pretty much told him in the middle of the third book that he had nearly no shot with her. I honestly thought they were done, and the conflict at the end was unnecessary then. It was dragged out for too long.
I think it was less of a love triangle and more "i lov this guy, but he could dump me at any time and i'm so insecure that i must have a plan B at all times". And its kinda mean of her. And I like it, actualy. She is insecure, and mean, and confuse, and she uses people without even noticing... like any teenager beholding a mariage at 17 and having a couple months to do so...
"I am confused"
- America in The Selection withdolls
Aspen walked America down the aisle?!? 😂😂
That's a villain arc
IKR wtf imagine your ex giving you away at your own wedding
Haha-if you read the sequel series they actually totally bury the hatchet and the 3 of them become really good friends. He even is a “uncle” of sorts to her kids
@@eloisedevant1127No way 😂, like idk how cool my ex and I are. If they start calling my Auntie that's my que to go 😂😂
iirc he (spoiler?) turned her down before she could really decide between him and maxon. he fell in love with one of her maids and i feel like he tries to tell america but she doesn't let him finish what he's saying because she thinks he's going to tell her that he loves her?? idk i remember i was always so irritated that america could never make up her mind and i felt like in the end the two guys made all the decisions for her (what with aspen taking himself out of the running by choosing someone else to be with and then maxon ALSO choosing someone else, only to change his mind about it in the eleventh hour). but yeah. they were all really good friends in the end but i guess it is a bit odd to have an ex give you away hahah
@@eloisedevant1127 except Maxon never really gets over it because at some point when Aspen talks to America in The Heir, Eadlyn points out how good he's hiding his emotions (Eadlyn never finds out but it's obvious he's jealous 🫢)
the CHOKEHOLD Maxon's "break my heart" line had on me. who am i kidding it still does, GREAT VIDEO
That monologue lives rent free in my head
Lowkey considering working it into my vows 😂😂 its so GORGEOUS
@@ladytokoni I swear that line randomly pops in my head at least once a month
That line made me start reading the Selection because I saw it so much on tumblr 😅
IN MY MIND RENT FREE
I Love how everybody says: this book is a guilty pleasure and America is kind of an idiot
I remember reading these books in just a week because you can literally finish one of them in 1-2 days. No substance, just drama and chaos
SAME i got the first one for christmas back in like 2014 and then i immediately bought the rest of the trilogy and finished it all in like two days. its so much fun
Yessss exactly! I read it on vacation and I remember annoying the heck out of my dad because I was begging him to go to the book store every two days😂😂
Yes but it's just so addictive
YES
I know I Read the last one in a day
I love/hate this book series! Its so unhinged and chaotic
agreed! it started off feeling like just another hunger games inspired YA trilogy (there were…so many lol) and devolved into a beautifully chaotic disaster you can’t look away from
I stand by America when she flipped her sh*t for Marlee, and at the same time stand by Maxon for doing what was in his power to not let Marlee and Carter die. The two can coexist right?
For sure. If not well be hypocrites together 😂
America getting angry over what happened to Marlee is one of the only times where her being angry at Maxon is justified lol EDIT: but of course I do also agree that Maxon didn’t really have a choice
@Fantastic Beck honestly, rereading the novel reminded me that America's anger/standoffishness were really unwarranted and unkind at times, but this is the exception
being upset at an unjust system vs doing what you can within the system to reduce harm. i think those are compatible attitudes 🤷♂️
@@belauensus7979 that's so real thank you :)
For all the author tried to make it a love triangle, I adore the fact that any time Aspen opens his mouth everyone unanimously goes "Ew, no."
The aspen thing is so true 😭😭✋
Like shut up aspen you ain’t ruining my AmericaxMaxon ship 😭
I don’t think I could read this just off of how much of a hypocrite America is she’s literally doing everything the prince is doing and wants to be mad at him
Edit: and I honestly feel like if ur going to talk to more than one person both whom you could/ intend on marrying they should at least know abt each other so they can make their own decisions
It’s very chaotic and there’s definitely a lot more to it, but yes, American can be very annoying.
That's YA romance for you haha
To be fair, that’s the shortsightedness I’d expect from a teen
she was the most annoying character. ever.
@@kingdomkey6184 trueee
The most unhinged part of this book was America doing a last minute placard presentation on abolishing the fascistic system of oppression propping up the very people she is doing the presentation for. Like imagine the lackluster sharpie drawing and three bullet points on that thing. And people were like 😮 this girl is a GeNIuS
I was so pissed off at the love triangle reading this, not because of how pointless it was (well, not JUST that) but because there are actual stakes and consequences here!!! Like, you know full well that having relations with someone other than the prince is basically illegal. You literally just saw ur bestie get publicly beaten and demoted to the lowest caste of society, yet you STILL decide to risk your life and rank by dicking around WITH A DUDE YOU ARENT EVEN THAT INTO?!!?!!?!!
Sorry, that shit had younger me heated bc how you gonna risk everything over a second male lead? NO cute little secret date is worth _those_ consequences. How hard is it to wait just a couple weeks? Again, it's not like he's the love of her life, cuz even when she's in full delulu mode, i can tell she's not really that into him and she knows it even though she lies to herself. She ain't even _trying_ to be subtle. She talks so much about her family yet is willing to risk it all on Aspen. Baffling. Embarrassing. Stupid.
My exact thoughts!!!
This is the exact thing that pisses me off about the second book and makes the series not worthy of reread for me!!!
Damn, Max had a point at the sending her home moment though. He deserved better.
Watching this made me realize how toxic America is to Maxon. I didn’t realize it when I was younger. Also, I read the books with their daughter and I don’t remember the plot. I just know it made me mad. I think she must have picked the wrong person.
Its because the daughter was a spoiled brat thats why you are mad.
yep, she picked the translator guy that came to the selection along with some baker dude from Scandinavia and broke the poor guy's heart, oh and also she abolished the monarchy
@@chillsash ok I remember that I wanted her and her friend to get together but I couldn’t remember who she actually got with
@@elizabethnoelle960 she ended up with that friend's translator guy who wasn't even a part of the election in the first place, I'm still pissed at this book
The daughter in chaotic drama again. I ate that shit up.
Honestly it was a good idea to show the perspective of the batchlor(ette) without just retelling the original books (Twilight, 50 Shades).
i dont know why but for me the wildest thing about this series is the names of the characters. america singer is.... a singer? born in what used to be america? the two love interests have weird names that rhyme? it's genius writing honestly
Because the world-building castes are build up occupation, people’s last names are occupation based. Just like Baker, Hooper, Smith, etc… Americas family is in the fine arts caste so it’s likely that her ancestors who were alive when the caste system was implemented where professional singers.
the scene with marlee getting caned traumatized me as an 11 year old
I know exactly where I was sitting when I read it 😭 I had to stop for a good two hours before picking it up again I was not ready
this book changed the trajectory of my life forever and deserves zero hate ever.
i felt that
yep. The trashy romance books I found in sixth grade will never be topped.
me in 7th grade:
Actually though, the selection was the first real romance I had ever read, and it started this whole chain of me reading romance for the next year.
@@chelsearobert-zs5ivomg same!
I remember how he kept telling her he *had* to marry someone even though he wanted her but she kept being wishy washy so he had to keep the other girls and then she was *shocked* he was dating other girls. All the while cheating on him! Smh
She is very infuriating to the point I would skim through her scenes with Aspen😂 15 year old me was big mad too😂😂😂
It took me years to realize that Carter Woodwork was not some 40 year old man with a 16 year old girl and that these kids get drafted at like 17 into the palace guard 😂
She's such an engaging story teller lmao i haven't read the books but I'm listening to this like it's a reality tv show
I’m pretty sure it was inspired by the dating show The Bachelor
i am so invested in this series of tea spilling on a series i always saw at the book fair
Sameeee
I was obsessed with "break my heart, break it a thousand times if you'd like. it was only ever yours to break anyways". It was unhealthy.
it's clear that the original plan for this book was to make Maxon the bad option so aspen could rise But Maxon os such a good character the author had to make him the endgame
As chaotic as this series is, it doesn’t hold a candle to the insanity that is the “Red Queen” series.
Honestly
Frl!
OMG I READ THIS AT THE SAME TIME AS THIS SERIES- (spoiler)… am I remembering correctly? but doesn’t she become a rebel or something😂😂😂 along with her family😂 like superpowers or something
@@letyv9071YES 😭
POV: You’re not problematic or “the worst,” you’re a teenager who has been abused by the government her whole life, taken from her family, and asked to love and commit to the next representative of that abusive government.
Yes this is very true I like many others sadly didn’t see it this way in middle school when I first read the series 😅
It would be more passable if the writing was better. But it’s a middle school book with VERY middle school writing.
i get your point and in a more serious book that actually intended to deconstruct/critique fascism it would make sense but this is like. not that.
Knowing these facts, still more than half of her actions make no sense. She's thoughtless and her actions are even sometimes dangerous. That's not how a traumatised person behaves. don't hate her but she's very silly throughout.
I was my secondary school’s library assistant and I was always checking these in and out, they were a hot commodity. Never read them myself but honestly Maxon seems like the only valid teen dystopia romance boy, good for him
Girl! I never comment on any videos but I have to tell you…please read the other book on America & Maxon’s daughter! From what I remember, there is quite a dramatic twist at the end :) and I bet your storytelling skills will perfectly portray the story!
Truly enjoy your content, connecting me back to childhood shows and now this! Never found somewhere to express the rollercoaster of emotions this book series had me in. You really represented all the thoughts of the reader honestly 😂 questioning America’s indecisiveness yet still hooked till the very end! 😊
I need the Lunar Chronicles recap lol!
Ooh that’d be fun I love that series!
Oooo! Yes! I love that series
yesss i love that series!! none of the characters are annoying like america
Yessss
@@hxrleydxrling9662I was just going to comment that, Winter and Jacin are still my OTP. Now that's a healthy Friends to Lovers trope
I know it has no correlation whatsoever but every time you said “America” or “America has..” I always expecting “A Problem” to finish your word 😭
Tlddr: AMERICA HAS A PROBLEM is such a bop
Well this america also has a problem
cuz love can't get no HIGHERRRRR than this... no... NO
@@yunjin910 now sir lmao
@@gabbismith Twenty-forty-eighty out the trap
Hit it with the rap, put it on the map
Then we right back (back, back, back)
Call me when you wanna get high-igh-igh-igh
The break my heart line ALWAYS gets me, like even you just reading it has me swooning. I did read The Heir and The Crown and I did like it, honestly, but nothing could ever beat how unhinged but great the original Selection trilogy is.
ok first of all maxon's "break my heart" line? FINE LITERATURE. it still gets me to this day. and pls pls do read the duology about their daughter oh my god it's kinda wild and the person who she ends up with......def following in her dad's footsteps. this family can't just play by the rules
You should read their daughter’s story too. It’s very different in a good way and you get to have more America and Maxon moments.
Yes! I actually liked that story a little bit better. Eadlyn is such a compelling character to read from the perspective of
When reading The Elite, the way the public beating was described, I swear to you all I could hear Marlee's screams of agony in my head 😰 It was so disturbing
America’s behavior is annoying but to be fair, this is how I’d expect a teen to behave when dealing with one of her first romances
Throw back to when I thought Maxon was dead and America chose Aspen for like half a year, because when the third book came out, it wasn't translated yet, but a bilingual friend sent me some pages from the book in english, the part after the last rebel attack. and well, reading comprehension was.. Not my cup of tea
I was worried part 2 would take ages to come out but here we go! >w<
I was never interested in this series yet your commentary makes me uber invested
Exactly the same for me 😂😭
I remember reading this series recently when I got Covid and I'm someone who hates most romance stories because of love triangles where the outcome is obvious. Every plot point ended up more stupid than the last but I just couldn't put it down because I wanted to know how much bullshit they could stuff into this thing before the finale.
Spoiler warning for anyone who hasn't read The One!
The end of this series was especially chaotic and I can't wait until you cover it because the author killing off the parents for plot convenience AND Celeste just as she got her redemption arc is so insane.
Oh my god I can’t believe I forgot about that😭
It's what the people wanted lol
@@megdragon5191 it wasn’t personally my favorite because it removed America’s agency in the conflict with the king. I think it would’ve been more satisfying to see her rebel and succeed verses someone else eliminating the problem for her. But I understand if people like it!
I remember reading this series in middle school so fast but no one else in my class was reading it so I was just absorbing all this chaos without anyone to understand. Here we are years later and I’m so thankful. This series was WILD. I also remember reading the Matched series but I remember almost nothing about it.
The dialogue is what makes the book, despite everything that happens the characters are so good
the amount of times i threw these books across my room in middle school is outrageous thank you for going back to a series that changed my entire personality
10:38 IS LITERALLY THE ONLY SCENE FROM THE WHOLE SERIES THAT I REMEMBER AS A KID!! I DIDNT JUST HALLUCINATE THAT. I had one of the BIGGEST book crushes on celeste and i vividly remember that passage where her legs were being described. turns out I probably just like red flags.
“If you have sex before marriage: death” damn I didn’t know this was a slasher series
SO happy you listened to your bestie :,) I watched pt.1 yesterday after seeing it on my recommended for a few days and it reminded me of how my I loved the series in middle school. I almost bought the second book because I was to impatient to wait for a part two BUT you blessed us today❤😗🫶🏾
Still HIGHLY recommend books 2 and 3!! 1 is slow but necessary 2 is a bop and 3 is a FEVER DREAM
I love this, it’s like hearing the middle school gossip without having to keep secrets 😂
just sat down w a cold bowl of Cocoa Puffs and seeing that you posted brought me genuine joy
netflix just announced they aren't actually adapting these books into movies but honestly maybe all we needed were your videos
What a huge coincidence I was cleaning out my childhood closet and found my entire collection of this book series!! I absolutely devoured these books reading each one in like a night!
your recaps are giving me life as someone who was obsessed with this trilogy as a teen. loved maxon so much i named my dog after him 😭
I am obsessed with this little series. Cant wait for more YA book recaps.
your recap of the first book made me start rereading the whole series 😭 its so chaotic that its good 😭 thanks for finishing up the original series!
keeper of the lost cities and land of stories were my favorite books when I was younger. I’d love to see you do a breakdown on those if you want
I've never read the series but that climax was so intense through your filter! Incredible. Thank you for this ❤
Highly highly highly recommend reading them anyway theres so much more tea that due to xy or z she just alludes to or briefly mentions that are so chaotic reading them through
Thank you for the 2nd part!! This book series sounds hilarious, but I am certain 70% of that is just the awesome energy you bring! I am never going to read the books, but I would be lying if I didn’t admit to looking for more youtube summaries of the sequel after watching your previous video. So glad you made this! Thank you for feeding my crazy need of quirky YA book recaps!😂
i hate love triangles but i love this book series because it's not even a love triangle because you KNOW Maxon is the choice from the SECOND he's introduced
I watched your first one yesterday and I'm SO happy u posted today omg what a fun surprise lol ♥️♥️♥️♥️
omg I found your channel yesterday and now I’m hooked girl😭😭
My fiance really wanted to watch this recap just for the drama with no intention of ever reading the books. He was SO invested. Great job 😂
Getting to relive this mess was a treat. I remember reading these books on a summer vacation and every time there was some new event or task I’d think “UGH OKAY how’s America gonna mess this one up”. She was a bit of an infuriating protagonist lol, but Maxon really was SUCH an appealing love interest. Ultimate trashy post-apocalypse YA era boy.
Read the ones about their kid!!! I love the way Maxon and America love each other in the moments they aren't screwing it up in their series but in the next set about their daughter, there isn't a will she won't she about the relationship but rather her main struggle is about protecting the cou try and will she make room for love while serving her country. The love is so much a win in the end. It moved my heart twice as much as America's books.
I’m still waiting for them to make this into a series and make it the best nostalgic tv show i’ve ever seen. I need them to make it as clichè and as over the top as possible and i will Eat That Shit UP
I started the books involving A&M's daughter and I never finished them. They were a bit jarring because they're trying to get us to care about these new characters, but also still progressing drama with the OLD characters. I's just way too much to still have YA drama happening to literally everyone.
The books just felt like I was standing on a mile high stack of rugs and having them pulled out from under me over and over. Eventually it's not shocking or even startling anymore, you just want to jump off the pile.
girl thank you for delivering this absolutely rollercoster story in such a cool way, felt like listening to my bestie rant and i loved it
I remember reading this series with the rest of my canon at summer camp in middle school, literally the book that bonded all of us together. This little story means so much to me 😭😭
I literally can’t wait for this to have a movie/tv adaptation. Because it’ll be a hot mess and I’m here for it. Book 2 made me so mad
I loooove this series. However, the sequel series about America and Maxon's daughter is only worth a read if you're willing to face the same annoying back-and-forth bs that America and Maxon went through as well but just in princess form. Their daughter is quite callous
In Germany the one is called der erwählte which signifies the one being a man. I always thought it Shows how the choice was always americas to make and that maxon is the one
Oh, that's interesting! In Poland, the title is "Jedyna", which indicates that it is a woman, so I always thought it was about the girl Maxon would choose and who would eventually become the queen. The English title has the advantage of being more ambiguous (since "The One" can mean a woman, a man and a caste) and because of that it can be interpreted in different ways...
this book is so much to go through... i hate the little love triangle but i kinda like this mess
I have always loved Maxim his literally the only sane person in this series, but unfortunately, their daughter took after America😭😭
I remember wanting to love this series so much when I was younger but even as a kid the Bachelor thing with Maxon dating and making out with multiple girls just gave me the ultimate ick
the ones about her daughter are actually so good! highly recommend
im so obsessed with this unhinged recap, you have no idea. if you've read Allie Condie's Matched series or Lauren Oliver's Delirium series, PLEASE consider doing recaps of those?
Girl, PLEASE MAKE MORE!!! This childhood guilty pleasure content recap is giving me life
i don’t know if there’s a part 3 or not but without even watching the second ep - i need you to recap it. i never read this series ever. i live for the DISH
PART 3 PLSSS
ITS BEEN THREE HOURS SIR CALM DOWN
Isn't the story finished?
@@frenchgirl5878 theres one more book
@@sunnyisfictional two more actually. Eadlyn might be even more chaotic
This series and I have (in my opinion) a very funny history together.
It all startet when I was searching for some Zutara fanfiction, and I found this really long one and was like: cool, I’m gonna devour this in a week. So I did. Some time passes, I forget about it. Then I see The Selection trilogy pop up everywhere I look so I decide to read it. After I started reading it seemed suspiciously familiar. Lo and behold it was almost exactly like that Zutara fanfic I read. And while I might have enjoyed the books normally, the fanfic was better and I was left disappointed. I mean, Katara was a badass waterbender who got to fight!!! Unfortunately I don’t remember what it was called or where I read it, but it was very fun :)
Lol! Girl this series drove me crazy but I couldn’t NOT finish it 😩. I love that you’re recapping. This is gold 😂
*I hated what happened to Marlee but that low key should’ve happened to America too. Because she was doing practically the same thing! 😭
Honestly The Heir and the Crown are cute, the crown is pretty rushed but I think they’re worth the read they’re quick but they’re cute if you like just good chemistry between two characters
book 2 made me wanna tear my hair out, back when i read it as a kid and even more so when i re-read as an adult xd
I remember reading the first book and it wasn't my kind of guilty pleasure, but I still always kind of wanted to know how the story ended. Thanks for giving me that!
I totally expected the rebels to have a much bigger role and the selection part of the story to subside after the first book. I'm glad I didn't continue reading. I understand why someone would like the story, it's just really not what I like
I appreciate so much you summarizing this, I never as a teen but I been young me would had enjoy the drama, current me enjoy hearing the drama without all the extra fluff
obsessed with the way you recap it’s like you’re spilling fictional tea
girl you HAVE to make a video or two on the sequels oml they’re even more unhinged 💀
I've literally never heard of these books or the plot so I couldn't work out why these videos had been suggested... Till the miraculous image flashed up and I said out loud... "Oh.... That's why."
I enjoyed this loads BTW, thanks for the break down, I might grab the books and have a read to fully enjoy ❤
ma'am, ma'am, thank you so much! i just found the unaired pilot of a 2013 series, in which William Mosely plays Aspen and watched that and it was so so so bad but it did remind me of this series and then of course i wanted to read the books again but like without losing hours of my life so this was perfect, thank you so much. So highly entertaining and funny, you are so so so right!!!
Please, unhinge recap of The Heir and The Crown, I STILL CAN'T GET OVER THE FACT THAT SHE DIDN'T END UP WITH MARLEE'S SON, KILE, THEY WERE PERFECT AND IT BROKE MY HEART WHEN HE WAS WILLING TO ASK HER TO MARRY HIM RIGHT ON THE SPOT AND SHE WAS LIKE "FOLLOW YOUR DREAMS" AND I CAN'T
Omg YES I was rooting for them too
@@m3piggy844 THEY WERE LITERALLY PERFECT!! Also, knowing Eadlyn was going to be the one in command, imagine Kile being all like "know that I have influence...I can build great stuff"
THANK YOU FOR DOING A PART 2 i loved seeing you talk about the first book. you should do more of these, your storytelling style x YA novels satisfies some very specific part of my brain
This was an absolute blast 😂😂 Also you should definitely read the two books about their daughter, they are equally chaotically excellent
I don’t care how cringe it is, Maxon’s “break my heart” line still gets me man 🥹
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I’ve been wanting to revisit this series but these videos were way better than reading them again thank you!
The ones about their daughter are wild, Eadlyn is one of the weirdes protagonists I have ever seen. The books are still worth a read though
So, you came out with these while I was rereading everything (including the last two). And I have a very unpopular opinion; but I prefer the last two. Not because they're actually any better, but because I love how Eadlyn doesn't start out as the most likeable character, but she grows so much. The shenanigans that happen are still chaotic, and I have a huge soft spot for a lot of the guys (especially who she ends up with). Still a guilty pleasure. Still not exactly the best written series, but I think the last two books are better than people give them credit for. The only people I've talked to about it just wanted her to have a romance like her parents, and that's not how that works. She's a different person, so she needed something different. And if you get past a few tropes, it honestly turns out pretty good
thinking about it. This trilogy was where my thrist for drama started
now...this makes me wanna read series- it's so unhinge like 😭😭
please do part 3 !!!! about book 4 and 5
i was so invested in this series in middle school, like i had all the books, i had the novellas, i had the goddamn coloring book. it was equally as fun to watch this and think back to the books like "that really happened, huh."
I've never read that book. I'm glad. That finale would have had me LIVID
YAY! You did another! dude i was reading this last book at like 3am on the floor of my cousins room, rocking back and forth like a maniac, screaming into a pillow. This made me want to read the books again and relive that experience.
I went down an obsessive hole and finished the whole series in three nights two weeks before finals. I legit pulled three all nighters in a row to read the series…. And I kinda hate it. It’s literally like not being able to look away from a car crash.
I love this series, i love the ridicoulosness of it, and i love unhinged recaps of things i like where people point out the cringy but honestly funny bits. Do the ruby red series, it’s also a very short trilogy but SO GOOD