“The Selection” by Kiera Cass

Title: The Selection
Author: Kiera Cass
Publisher: HarperTeen
Year: 2012
Genre(s): young adult, romance, futuristic
Part of a Series: Yes, Part 1 of 5
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Why I Read It: I think Goodreads recommended it to me.

Summary: In a future where all the countries we know are gone and combined to make new ones and monarchies have replaced democracy, America Singer is coming of age in the kingdom of Illea – and so is the future king, Maxon. Which means it is time to find him a bride and future queen in a process known as the Selection. Several young women are selected from across the country and brought to the palace to compete for the prince and a chance to be his wife. When America is selected, she reluctantly goes and is certain she will get kicked off relatively quickly. But when she develops a friendship with Maxon, she starts to rethink everything she wants from her life.

“Where the Lost Wander” by Amy Harmon

Title: Where the Lost Wander
Author: Amy Harmon
Publisher: Lake Union Publishing
Year: 2020
Genre(s): historical fiction, romance
Part of a Series: No
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Why I read it: Once Upon a Book Club selection

Summary: Recently widowed, Naomi decides to head west on the Oregon Trail with her family and some friends. At the starting point, she meets John Lowry, who works with his father raising and selling mules to the pioneers getting ready to cross the American frontier. He and Naomi feel pulled toward each other and he decides to join their wagon party to start a new life out west as well. But the Oregon Trail is not kind to the pioneers who traverse it and John Lowry must also contend with the fact that he was born to a white father and a Pawnee mother, a man who has a foot in both worlds but doesn’t feel at home in either. Will he and Naomi survive the trials and challenges of the Oregon Trail? And if so, will they be able to find a life together? Or will life on the Oregon Trail prove too much?

My Books of 2020

 

I made my reading goal for 2020! Most of it was done at the end of the year but I got it done! in 2021, I hope to read one book a month. Can I do it? Let's find out!