The ORIGINAL Cait Corrain??? | The Selection Analysis + Talking about the Controversy
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- Опубліковано 13 січ 2025
- To find out that Kiera Cass went through a similar Cait Corrain-level controversy over 10 YEARS AGO was definitely a shock…
Although I definitely didn’t do any deep dives or hard investigation into this issue, I can at least say that this book was definitely not worth all that drama. Wendy Darling was just one person among the literal MILLIONS of people that read and reviewed the book. And even though she had her share of criticisms, it’s undeniable that the love for this book and this series is still alive and well even after so many years.
I’m glad I picked this book for Kristen’s Top Picks because even though there were some things I didn’t vibe with, I am eternally grateful that I got to experience the fictitious romance of Maxon and America. Unfortunately, he is my new unattainable standard for men. Sorry.
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Despite my criticisms of her actions and don’t get me wrong - she was ABSOLUTELY in the wrong - she did apologize to the original reviewer and Wendy Darling is the only person that can accept or reject her apology. It is not my place to say whether or not people should continue to support Kiera Cass but I like to think that she’s learned (very publicly) from this experience and will not make another mistake like this in the future.
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I think the reason she wasn’t punished as severely as Cait Corrain is that she didn’t target people of color, she didn’t falsify any reviews, liking reviews isn’t unethical, and because she is not the one who said the negative stuff. Elena Roth is the one who called the reviewer a bitch and while Kiera should have been smart enough to say “this convo is public and inappropriate,” she just said “mean comments get more likes. whatevs” and “I’ll ask my friends to like the positive reviews.” In terms of authors behaving badly, what Cait Corrain did was disgusting, racist, manipulative, and cruel. What Keira did was just stupid and a little rude.
Omg you've unlocked a core memory for me lmao. I witnessed this whole thing live because I was a follower of Wendy Darling's, and I couldn't believe people just moved on so quickly. The book community really was a different beast back then, if this happened now I doubt people would've just let it go😂
Imo, America and Aspen deserved each other. He’s the stereotypical bad boy®️, but she’s also toxic af. She only cares about herself and doesn’t understans the responsabilities of her position, and specially Maxin’s position, particularly in The One. So yeah, Maxin deserved better as well 🫠
I'm not even that interested in booktube or booktok, but I'm aware of the Cait Corrain controversy and I saw this on my recommended page and your energy instantly endeared me! Then when I clicked on your channel, I saw your intro video with your huge stack of books and I saw Wotakoi and I instantly subbed 😂 I'm not super plugged in to new releases in English fiction but I'm in a big shojosei manga phase rn so I had to sub lmao. Thank you for your engaging commentary and also for highlighting Doctors Without Borders! Your positive energy was made for UA-cam! I think I'm gonna check out your Aristotle and Dante vid next 💕
Oh! And I'm subscriber 140!
It makes me feel so old that I remember Kiera Cass from her Twilight days. She and her friend did these skits where they were the wives of the Volturi and acted like gangster wives and were super famous in the Twilight fandom. I followed her side channel because it was about her trying to get published and I even bought her first book, the Siren that she self published.
Always wondered if her popularity and fans were the reason she got trad published as she’d been trying for years before and didn’t get anywhere until the channel became popular
Oh yay! You were on my home page. Hopefully you get more subscribera, I liked this video!
I love how happy you are in this video from 4 days ago about hitting 30 - and seeing that you're now at 300!
new to your channel, glad it was recommend to me lmao! i remember reading the selection in middle school because everyone i knew was obsessed with it, lowkey laboring through it, and then attempting to read the sequel before quitting two chapters in.
thank u for sharing this! i never knew this happened but it definitely made me lose the love i had for this series. the series is not that good but it’s such a core part of so many peoples middle school experience that i feel like people can’t help but love it
great video!! So happy to see Doctors Without Borders lifted up! It’s a wonderful organization doing absolutely amazing work across the world!!!!!
The 2010s internet being called ‘new’ was a true lol moment for me
I just want to say - you have an incredible stage presence for videos! Realizing you had so few when you mentioned it was baffling, I truly expected you to have many more with the way you carry yourself. Glad to see it's gone up tremendously since you've posted this. :))
You being hyped that one of your vids got 180 views and now this one currently having 7.4k view. You must be thrilled, so happy for you! Good video!
Petunia the Orchid reminds me of Flounder, Ariel's bestie in The Little Mermaid is a name not his species...😂
Was not even aware of the controversy until this video. Wow. 10 years later and we see a repeat.......fingers crossed we don't see another repeat any time soon.
I'm going to have read the books again cause for some reason I remember Aspen being likable. At least until the 2nd and 3rd book, but still. I remember absolutely loving this series as kid. So much so that I got the whole series plus the 2 books after that follow America's daughter..............be careful if you read that by the way. The second book had a scene that made me question things about the main series.💀
Thank you for the review!❤
If stickers and posters are involved i feel like you kinda have to get the book, its like a reward
Something else that Cass did that wasn't covered here is the fact that she (or her publisher or some other friend tied to the drama) tried to also dox Wendy Darling's real name and information. Like that was the most disgusting part about the whole situation to me.
omg its been so long since ive ever heard about the selection since ive read it back in 6th grade. great analysis, girl!!
whoa! i just now realized the size of your channel! i watched a different video a while back and thought your channel was a lot bigger. this is a compliment tho! your work is super professional and gives off a vibe that you have a lot of experience! congrats on the great quality! hoping to see your channel grow even more!
44:20 big brain energy. I never noticed either. 😂😂😂
The vibe on Goodreads/the internet generally wasn't as strictly "Authors: Keep Out" about reviews as it is now. I think the tide shifted because of incidents like this (and much, much scarier ones).
The "Goodreads author" tag used to be more meaningful, there was more interaction between authors and readers. I remember Veronica Roth doing big pre-reviews of her books, talking about why she was excited about the story and joking around. (Title of the last book was a big topic with a lot of joke names going around, but the one I remember was Detergent lol.) But then it became clear that we can't have nice things :/
i remember the matched series and selection being big books and my middle school english teacher talked about them for book-talks to us
Dude I really liked this video omg I totally thought you were a much bigger channel! Here’s to more success coming your way!!! /gen
The only time off the top of my head I didn’t like Maxon was with Celeste. When he was immediately kissing her in the first book and when she was threatening America and ruining her dress Maxon yelled at America and called her jealous or something?? It’s been a while but something like that
this is so entertaining!! loving the vibes and energy in this corner of the internet :)
This is your second vid that’s come up on my feed! Keep it up with the great videos!!!
omg u had 30 subscriber just 4 days ago? and now you have so many, congrats ! hope ur vid hits more ppl’s recommended !
I remember being OBSESSED with the books and being like omg who is she gonna choose??? Looking back, I'm just like GIRL WUT IS GOING ON
New follower here, the algo brought me in, but congrats on the influx of followers LMAO
I remember reading the selection a long time ago in 2012, and I had no idea that the goodreads drama was happening bc i wasn't on twitter at the time, but wow, that's wild!
Thanks for digging into that, and talking about this old series! can't wait to see more from you!
The main conflict is basically like the bachelor dynamics? I never watched it but I've seen Ashley Norton videos about it lol I wonder which came first
It was definitely the show, not the book. I was in college in 2012 when the book came out, and I distinctly remember my mom watching The Bachelor when I was in high school.
Love to see when small UA-camr are excited about getting a bigger amount of views/subs than usual and then you check their current stats and their channel grew a whole lot more❤
Also hi, fellow person who says "I'll finish my tbr before buying anything more!!" And then goes buying more. Except I didn't have pretty merch as an excuse so far lol
Loved the video! Got recommeded to your channel and you absolutely deserve more subscribers, also thank you for mentioning where sleeping girls lie! I'm new into the hobby and after reading the synopsis online I added to my to read list, sounds like a good read :D
I haven't thought about this book in years - you unlocked a memory haha. I read this book back in middle school and remember liking it then. I think I only read the first book in the series though.
first off i just wanted to say that i enjoyed the video and your energy, was shocked when you said you had only 28 subscribers bc i assumed you were a bigger channel, definitely subbing :)
secondly, and it has been over a decade since i read the books lol so idk that i remember everything buT i think your criticism of the worldbuilding/dystopia missed the mark in some points. while i agree that the dystopia felt very shoehorned in to fit in w publishing trends, i think it was better than you gave it credit for. to me, the misogyny of the system was the whole point, so it makes sense that only women would be able to change their caste by marriage (as they are also able to be seen as state property and made into a game show), as well as the banning of premarital sex, which i remembered with more emphasis on the ban on birth control (but that might be the fact that i haven't read it in a while) and read it as analogous to the attacks on reproductive rights irl. also i think the fact that the caste system itself doesn't make sense is kinda the point, in that if you try to separate people by who they were born to it's not going to make sense as a system and ppl are inherently going to be in roles that they wouldn't be suited for.
i do agree with the general conceit of ur review and i really enjoyed your video, you have a great presence and i will be sticking around for more :)
I've never read this book nor do I want to BUT I did watch the unaired 2012 pilot multiple times and it's so silly omg (the pilot is on youtube “Selection, The - Unaired 2012 Pilot”)
33:06 the way this made me physically recoil 😭😭😭
New subscriber. I think I love you 😂 I read this series when it came out and had no idea this happened. I thought about it the other day bc there was supposed to be a Netflix series
😂 the way you bucked and pulled that fist back!!! Great vid…subscribing 😊
This series was eeeeeeverywhere when I first discovered booktube, I never read them because I'm not much for romance, but they sound fun 😂
i may be fever dreaming right now cause its been ages since i read this books but i think she published this companion extra novel from maxen perspective [as was common at the time] and there she also talked about process of writing this books and she talk about some girl sending her favourite snacks as a bribe to make Mer chose Aspen?? idk she was probably making shit up but if not i have to belive there were people rooting for Aspen which is REALLY FUCKING HARD
you have such cinnamon roll energy, so soothing ☺️
hi hello only like 2-3 min in to the video. just wanted to say your vibe is fuckin PERFECT. i clicked on this video and the first green flag was the HOO series behind you on the shelf, the second is just your energy. and omg sorry it’s still playing, the doctors without borders donation plug??? yeah officially so happy i found your channel. you’re doing amazing sweetie!! keep being you and killin’ it
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"at this point she could tell him to bark and hed be like AWOOF!" 😂
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came for the drama. stayed for the personality. new subscriber here 🙋🏽♀
In most love triangles, it's usually the OG boy we are "supposed" to cheer for. Hunger Games and the Selection seem to be the exception. I only ever read The Selection, but I thought Aspen and his attitude were dog sh*t from the beginning. I was glad when America ended up with Maxon, because he was at least good to her.
This video was so good! I immediately subscribed!
I saw The Selection years ago but never read it. I think as a teenager it would have frustrated me, but as an adult, the series is a pass. Thank you for your review.
Just found your channel, I really like your vibe! Cant wait to see you grow! 💕
you deserve more subscribers
You need more views. This isn’t my kind of video, but I still thought the video was good. Commenting for engagement.
You got into the algorithm!
I read this series around(ish) when it came out, I was about your age at the time, (👵) I even read the novellas that follow Maxon and Aspen. I kept reading the series even though I was pretty bored. The author tried really hard to make it "dystopian", but it was pretty watered down dystopian. None of the characters are particularly likable, and I wanted America to chose nobody. She sucked, and so did Aspen, and Maxon in his own way.
me 24 seconds into the video: ok this girl got humour, subscribed lol
36:13 maybe the guy heard about the selection and was acting like an idiot because he understands the rules, where people get killed.
Love your channel! New subscriber :)
I remember reading the book and laughing bc i thought it was a parody. It dawned on me in book 2 it's not a parody. The books.... if she gets a goot editor coukd maaaybe reach "average" or "meh" but as they are, calling them bad is generous.
28:15 did u just describe a 3 year age gap as a, call for help situation??
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Im subscriber numbah 39 babey!!
I had no idea the author had controversy when these books came out but man Wendy Darling was THE reviewer back in the day (and not for a good reason 😂). Btw the selection trilogy is such trash, but it was a good time for the summer holidays.
😂😂😂 God I'm glad I didn't read this series I used to have this bigass FOMO bc I didn't ... turned out I saved my sanity
Talking about a bad review like that is obviously gross but the wild thing about Cait’s behavior to me was the active sabotage of other people’s careers. so I mean at least she didnt do that
wooooow i never heard about this. of course goodreads let it pass. the book community would have brought justice to wendy darling in their stead. reviews are for readers and authors need to keep out.
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Girl there's 5 books not 3
18:00 Average human behavioure
I really enjoyed the selection, but the rest went down hill from there for me.
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It was hard to 'listen2kristen' because she holds a powerful microphone up to her mouth. Those 'p' pops are so loud in my headphones. Set your mike down and leave it down!!
Honestly I don’t agree with you I don’t the think it came from an evil place. She was a new author that published a book and I guess she believed at her creation, and like you said the one star comment could ruin her dream and not boost her book. At the of the thing people like the book very much and i don’t think liking positive rating is a crime. I agree she shouldn’t publicly talk about it with her agent but she probably didn’t know.
Goodreads is a toxic dumpster fire. Just read books guys geeze