Sniffing A Book

4/5 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon, Vol. 5 by Naoko Takeuchi takes up where we left off. Chibi-Usa goes missing and it's up to Tuxedo Mask to get her back. Instead of finding his small future daughter, he finds a woman claiming to be his daughter fully grown, and evil. This was a nice change of pace from the previous books and easy to follow. It was an interesting story line that you didn't really see coming if you haven't seen the anime. It was a tad uncomfortable watching her kidnap Mamoru and basically claim him as hers. To watch Pluto leave her post to go and help was heartbreaking because you knew in your heart that she was going to die for it. The book did make up for it (slightly) with Chibi-Usa getting her full guardian powers though!

4/5 The Selection by Kiera Cass takes place after World War 4, when the USA is no longer a thing, and to survive, Canada and Mexico join the USA to create Illéa. Illéa is a nation that blatantly separates it's people into a ranking system. The higher the number, the less money you make and the harder it is to survive. America Singer is a five, so she doesn't make a lot of money, but she at least has food on the table.   She has no intention of entering the Selection to find the next queen, but she does to make her boyfriend, Aspen, who is a six, happy. But she's chosen, so to the capital she goes. She's not happy about it, but it's a lot of money for her family and will greatly help them fend off hunger in the slow months. During her time at the palace, America and Prince Maxon become close friends and grow to like one another. But they're faced with an enemy they don't really understand, and that is very dangerous. It's obvious this could be ...