Her sister, Violetta, is very pretty and still has her old hair color because she never developed the infection. She lost her left eye because of the infection, and she has bright silver hair. The heroine, sixteen-year-old Adelina Amouteru, survived a plague that spread across the world a few years ago. Ironically, she was born in 1984 and used to work as the art director at a video game company. Lu is the author of many young adult fantasy and dystopian novels. The series is popular with its teenage audience. Putnam’s, the story centers on a teenage girl who survived a terrible blood fever but now possesses magical abilities that may save her world. I can’t wait to read the next one.The Young Elites is the first book in a young adult dystopian trilogy of the same name by Marie Lu. This is definitely one of my favorite trilogies. His love is light, and it calls out the light in you.” She’s broken and when it seems like that there’s a way out, suddenly everything changes again. And, I know it’s weird, but I loved seeing her being consumed. Why does everyone forget your good intentions, Adelina?”Īfter loosing Enzo, and everyone else, Adelina is consumed by her need of power and revenge. So why are you the one cast out? You didn’t have to return to the Daggers – you didn’t need to help them rescue Raffaele. “You didn’t kill him, after all – it was not your blade that ended his life. “None of it was your fault,” the whispers in my head argue. I loved being in Adelina’s head once again her characters goes through one of the most turbulent and difficult development I’ve ever read. Why can’t I be the one to strike first, to hit so early and with such fury that my enemies cower before they can even think of turning on me? What is so great about being good? I loved the young elites and I love how Marie Lu took these characters through an emotional journey that reached its apex at the end of The Rose Society. This was by far the darkest book I’ve ever read. But how can someone be good, when her very existence depends on darkness? Adelina struggles to cling to the good within her. And her former friends, Raffaele and the Dagger Society, want to stop her thirst for vengeance. Teren Santoro, leader of the Inquisition, wants her dead.

She does not trust her newfound Elite friends. Her powers, fed only by fear and hate, have started to grow beyond her control. Her goal: to strike down the Inquisition Axis, the white-cloaked soldiers who nearly killed her.īut Adelina is no heroine. Now known and feared as the White Wolf, she and her sister flee Kenettra to find other Young Elites in the hopes of building her own army of allies.

Then they betrayed her, and she destroyed them all.Īdelina Amouteru’s heart has suffered at the hands of both family and friends, turning her down the bitter path of revenge. Once upon a time, a girl had a father, a prince, a society of friends.

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