I need to remind myself: This is about the Crown, not the Selection thus the name- BUT Oh, come on .. Still... As I read through the ending, I found myself dumbstruck and confused. Is the final conclusion just rashly made? Is the story all wrong from the start? Or is this how the ending of a second generation selection supposed to be made different from the original series? 
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 The Heir as the 4th book installment is basically the 1st book to the introduction of the next generation selection after picking up where The One left off. It follows then the story of Maxon and America's daughter Eadlyn and her selection (the first selection held by a princess ever!) The Crown as the 5th installment concludes the Heir. 
 With the 4th and 5th installment of a dazing book series for girls who fancies romance; it is impregnated with high expectations as it leaves off from a classic fairy tale romance. 
 Alas! In this book, we get to see what it feels to be the "Selector" and not the selected. SADLY... However Eadlyn's character damaged the romance of the book badly. Let's not get it wrong; she IS full of character, completely headstrong, cautious anti-romance type of girl and this is not why she ruined it. The commencement of the next selection and 1st selection for a princess is something new as only princes ever had one. But Eadlyn did not made it special- at all. 
 The book, if it featured the conversations between the selected and the princess, is filled with awkward dialogues and dry romance. It pales in comparison to Maxon and America's Selection. 
 Don't attack me though I love Erik (Eikko- a Selected's translator and is NOT PART OF THE SELECTION, but however chosen by Eadlyn as her lover) and most of all Kiera Cass. I love the twists in this book! How Erik is just the right person at right place and time when Eadlyn is not at her prime egotistical stature. I just find it horrible though to flip through the pages and not feel a Selection taking place at all, the romance was totally zeroed, and I'm badly dehydrated of it. 
 Eadlyn kept bitching about the Selection.. If she doesn't want it (Selection) badly, why did it ever took place at all?? Let's just focus on THE CROWN hence the title. 
 Why not just add more conversation with her and Erik instead? Is it a strategy to make her choice appear as vague as ever? Her caution for social attachments caused the book to lack romantic moments and deeply damaged the book and have made it a painful read. 
 But, most of all, I just wish there are more swoon moments to see for Erik and Eadlyn , I wish there are more moments for them to look back to.