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“Everyone has darkness inside them, however hidden.”

When a story isn't told by a hero who goes save the world at all costs and goodness can't conquer darkness, so the hero falls to his knees and his story doesn't end well. This is what I want to say about my expereince with this shocking Young Elites series. I am being in awe right now for Lu. I can't believe that she wrote such an amazing story like this among many typical YA books out there. She didn't even try to make her story feel good for everyone. The book itself is unique, dark and wicked. Lu kept pushing me further with her characters and broke my heart beyond repair with the ending. I'm emotinally struck I can't even sit still.

“I am tired of losing. I am tired of being used, hurt and tossed aside. It is my turn to use. My turn to hurt. My turn.”

The Young Elites was hard to get into at first; the protagonist, Adelina Amouteru, is not a villain by nature, she's turned into one after her father pushes her too far, it might be hard for many readers to get attached to her character. To be honest, I didn't enjoy some parts of this book because it was cliché and it would have been better if it had been cut out. I went too far in Adelina's mind that I knew her secrets, pain and things she kept inside, yet I felt like everything the author showed us was repeated and sometimes I got bored.

“No one wants you to be yourself. They want you to be the version of yourself that they like.”

Anyway, I think it's fair to give this book 4 stars, even though it deserves 3.5 stars in my opinion. The ending saves it all, I like the way Lu introduced me to a new character and made me look forward to the next installment. The world I've seen in this book is just the tip of the iceberg, the path Adelina chooses at the end will lead her to somewhere I can't predict, and I'm so lucky that I bought the whole series, otherwise I'll be suffering now.

Oh I almost forgot to say this, I have one little problem with Adelina, her voice when she narrates the story is flat, I felt no emotions in it at all. I hope it gets better in The Rose Society, right ?



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