The Heir

I still can't put into words why this series is so addictive??? Especially since [b:The One 18635016 The One (The Selection, #3) Kiera Cass https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1395612906s/18635016.jpg 21587145] so abruptly resolved America's story. I am interested in the ways Cass was kinda trying to do something feminist here with Eadlyn occasionally mentioning double standards about how men are ~assertive~ and she's ~bitchy~ even though she's a ~future queen~ and all the men are just garbage peasants. The problem is that Eadlyn is basically like a teenage Lucille Bluth??? Which is weird because her parents are basically socialist royals?? also the technology in this world still makes NO GODDAMN SENSE IT'S 300 YEARS IN THE FUTURE AND THE RICHEST PEOPLE IN THE COUNTRY HAVE LIKE ONE LAND LINE AND NO INTERNET AND THEY KEEP MAKING SERVANTS DELIVER HAND-WRITTEN NOTES AND I'M FURIOUS AND NOBODY HAS BOTHERED TO MAKE ANY MEDICAL ADVANCEMENTS AT ALL ARGHHHHHalso we listened to this on audio and then later I learned that Kyle and Aaron spell their names Kile and Ahren because the future??? also SWENDWAY god they kept saying SWENDWAY and I couldn't handle italso it's very rude of the palace not to provide a translator for their Swendish visitorughhhhhhhh