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3.75 AVERAGE
3.75 AVERAGE
Adelina deserves nothing
Violetta is such a flat character. She offered nothing.
Other elites were kinda cute
Violetta is such a flat character. She offered nothing.
Other elites were kinda cute
I really enjoyed this book. It was an easy read and I enjoyed the characters a lot. I highly recommend it for young adults (girls especially) who want a book that isn't all teen romance.
Seguí sólo porque ya había gastado mi crédito audible xD
The story had the potential to be compelling, but I just didn't care enough about any of the characters to continue reading the series. It's too bad, because I adore Lu's other work.
Well. I don't know what I was expecting from The Young Elites, but Lu's writing has grown so much since the Legend trilogy and this book thoroughly captivated me. The prose just...flowed, and I found the fantasy world really interesting. There's an intriguing cast of characters, and I like how they're are all morally ambiguous--this made for a particularly dark, though no less beautiful, story that was rife with jaw-dropping twists and turns.
Finding it hard to articulate what this book was missing for me, why the 3.5 stars got rounded down instead of up. I think I just wanted MORE. Adelina didn't work for me, but I'm invested enough to read the next in the series.
I could tell where the story was going the entire second act.. third act still good. Audiobook narrator got on my nerves a few times because of the drama in her voice.
“Everyone has darkness inside them, however hidden.”
I really loved how morally grey the anti heroine was - you have to admit she's something gifferent from the usual fantasy characters, and for someone who have read so many fantasy series, Adelina is a heartbreaking breath of fresh air - I loved how this book showed us the darker side in people, all the badness and injustice in the world.
“All I ever wanted, kindness with no strings attached.”
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“They all want to use you, use you, use you until they get what they want, and then they will toss you aside.”
Though I wouldn't mind a bit more depth to the writing - the writing style was way too simplistic for high fantasy in my opinion - and the plot was a bit sower in the middle, but the last part and the ending blew me away. I loved getting to know the Renaissance Italy/Venice inspired world (though I thought the book didn't delve deeply enough into the world building just yet), interesting side characters such as Raffaele, Enzo and Violetta with her different kind of strength, and especially the dark, intriguing and promising Adelina Amouteru. Also, I admit this book did make me cry like baby in the last part.
“Be true to yourself. But that's something everyone says and no one means. No one wants you to be yourself. They want you to be the version of yourself that they like.”
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“The only way to clamp down on my energy is to erase my emotions, and so I fold them each away, one by one. My sorrow turns to anger, then to ice-cold fury. My soul curls in one itself in defense. I am gone. I am truly gone.
I am not sorry.”
The Young Elites makes for a promising first book in a rare series centered on the villain.
“I am tired of being used, hurt, and cast aside. It is my turn to use. My turn to hurt.”
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“I will become a force that this world has never known. I will come into such power that none will dare hurt me again.”