THE SELECTION a YA Best Seller
Author Kiera Cash gushes on her blog today (time-stamped 12:02 a.m. — did she have to sit on the news until it was official?),
You guys! I’m totally a New York Times bestselling author! The Selection made it to #9 on the children’s list [the 5/13 NYT Chapter Books list]. My whole world is upside down! Thank you all so much for going out and buying my book. I hope you’re having as much fun reading it as I had writing it. THANK YOU!
It also just makes it on to the USA Today list at #150.
The first in a trilogy, The Selection is a dystopian novel with a difference. As made clear by the cover, this one is heavy on romance with no bloodsport. Of the pre-pub reviews, only Publishers Weekly gave it a thumbs-up. Kirkus called it a “probably harmless, entirely forgettable series opener,” and VOYA said, “readers who enjoy commonplace romances will gravitate to this novel while dystopian lovers who revel in series such as Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games and Uglies will be disappointed.”
That doesn’t seem to matter to readers; most libraries are showing holds, heavy in some areas.
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It comes comes with a trailer:
May 3rd, 2012 at 4:39 pm
Your post on The Selection prompted me to go to Edelweiss to check out this book, where I was intrigued to see it had “Much Love” from 32 peers. The 32 consisted of 2 booksellers, 1 librarian, 2 reviewers, and 27 bloggers.
That’s a lot of blogger love!