They are granted a chance to become a part of a world of far beyond what they could have imagined. The opportunity to get away and escape the life laid-out for them, something that was seemingly unchangeable. The Selection Stories-book 1įor (35) thirty-five girls, the Selection is a once and a lifetime chance to grab wealth and power. Akinli is a mortal who Kahlen and the other Sirens have been forbidden to interact with. You are, essentially, a weapon.” The main character has lived by these rules for such a long time, until a human who goes by the name of Akinli enters her world. You can speak to us, and you can always commune with the Ocean, but you are deadly to humans.

This means that, in general, you cannot form close bonds with humans. She has heard the same speech over and over, “You must never do anything that might expose our secret. The Siren focuses on Kahlen, one of the sisters apart of the sisterhood of Sirens. She claims their support is what made her want to continue to try and share stories with people.

She self-published The Siren in 2009 while five months pregnant, after not having a lot of success querying it but still desiring to reach out to the following she already possessed. After she got into the habit of writing, several ideas came to the surface, including The Selection and handful of others in which we are waiting for. Kiera Cass did not end up not finishing that story due to her waking up from a nap with the idea that would become The Siren. She claimed that the distance from her head to the page helped with a most necessary coping process concerning all the things she was feeling. Over the course of the following year, she’s stated to have tried a lot of activities to pull herself together resulting in the attempt to write a story where the main characters had to deal with life’s issues so she wouldn’t have to. After attempts at switching through several Majors including Music and History, she later followed a love interest to Blacksburg and settled. She states, “I wanted to be a performer in the WORST WAY!” I took a semester off, did a bunch of local shows, taught at a theater camp, and went to Coastal Carolina University in the spring majoring in Musical Theatre. Her great ambition initially when she graduated high school was theatre. Kiera published the first-book in The Selection trilogy, The Selection, in 2012 with HarperTeen. She is the New York Times Bestselling author of “The Selection.” She attended the Coastal Carolina University before transferring to Radford University. Her father is Puerto Rican, and her mother white. She’s stated that she was a proud child of the 80’s. Kiera Cass was born May 1981 in South Carolina.

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