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4.02 AVERAGE
4.02 AVERAGE
“Everyone has a darkness inside them, however hidden”
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This is my all time favorite ending to a book. It ends so beautifully that I talk about to as many people as I can about it. For Adelina to go from frightened, and scared, to feeling welcome by people like her, to becoming feared, but also fearing herself. The ending is slightly short, as to I’d like to know what happened to people other than Violetta and Magiano, like Raffaele.
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“Someday, when I am nothing but dust and wind, what tale will they tell about me?”
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The fact that in the end, Adelina wasn’t known for being cruel, she was known as a star, touching the land every midnight to kiss her love, Magiano. To have that for her, shows that she was so much more than a villain. Sometimes, in books, it’s better when the characters do end up dying. She would’ve hated life without her sister and powers, and she knew people would’ve hated her to, regardless of saving the world.
Thank you Marie for making the best series ever.
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This is my all time favorite ending to a book. It ends so beautifully that I talk about to as many people as I can about it. For Adelina to go from frightened, and scared, to feeling welcome by people like her, to becoming feared, but also fearing herself. The ending is slightly short, as to I’d like to know what happened to people other than Violetta and Magiano, like Raffaele.
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“Someday, when I am nothing but dust and wind, what tale will they tell about me?”
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The fact that in the end, Adelina wasn’t known for being cruel, she was known as a star, touching the land every midnight to kiss her love, Magiano. To have that for her, shows that she was so much more than a villain. Sometimes, in books, it’s better when the characters do end up dying. She would’ve hated life without her sister and powers, and she knew people would’ve hated her to, regardless of saving the world.
Thank you Marie for making the best series ever.
adventurous
dark
emotional
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Death, Blood
4.5 stars!
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The Midnight Star is a bittersweet and worthy conclusion to a dark, twisted, and oftentimes chilling Fantasy series. As in the previous installments, this is a character-driven story told from various POVs, with amazing writing, a complex plot, and great world-building.
Marie Lu loves her gut-wrenching endings and executes them very well. She knows how to weave pain and suffering together, although the fast pace does not let readers linger in the sadness for too long, which often softens the blows. Still, The Midnight Star has a lot of action, blood being spilled, death, and it absolutely broke my heart.
The novel starts about a year or so after the events in The Rose Society, with Adelina finally in the place she wants to be. She’s still very much an antihero, and once again we see how far she is willing to go to get what she wants. She is still a hard character to like, but a very interesting one to read about, especially as she struggles to deal with her powers.
Since the book is told in different POV’s — mostly Adelina and Raffaele’s —, we get a lot of different perspectives from people on both sides of the story. This enriches the story, and gives the readers glimpses into what other characters are feeling. Raffaele continues to be my favorite in this regard, even though some of his chapters brought tears to my eyes. Magiano is also fun to read about, and we do learn a little bit more about his past.
A highlight is that the focus of the novel is more on the Elites, their powers, and the world they live in; it is about responsibility and power and balance. There is very little romance in the story, which, yay! And one could argue that the most important relationship in the series is actually that between Adelina and her sister, as it plays an instrumental role in the development of the plot.
As the final book in the series, The Midnight Star gives us a fitting ending to Adelina and the Elites’ stories. It moves in the direction I was expecting it to, but its predictability doesn’t take away from the story. This is a great ending to this series, and I’m sad it has come to an end.
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Review of The Young Elites • Review of The Rose Society
Series: #3 and final in The Young Elites series.
POV: Told mainly from Adelina and Raffaele’s POVs, with chapters from Maeve, Magiano, Terren, and Violetta’s POVs.
Content Warnings:
Cliffhanger: No.
HEA:
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We can all do better.
The Midnight Star is a bittersweet and worthy conclusion to a dark, twisted, and oftentimes chilling Fantasy series. As in the previous installments, this is a character-driven story told from various POVs, with amazing writing, a complex plot, and great world-building.
Marie Lu loves her gut-wrenching endings and executes them very well. She knows how to weave pain and suffering together, although the fast pace does not let readers linger in the sadness for too long, which often softens the blows. Still, The Midnight Star has a lot of action, blood being spilled, death, and it absolutely broke my heart.
The novel starts about a year or so after the events in The Rose Society, with Adelina finally in the place she wants to be. She’s still very much an antihero, and once again we see how far she is willing to go to get what she wants. She is still a hard character to like, but a very interesting one to read about, especially as she struggles to deal with her powers.
Since the book is told in different POV’s — mostly Adelina and Raffaele’s —, we get a lot of different perspectives from people on both sides of the story. This enriches the story, and gives the readers glimpses into what other characters are feeling. Raffaele continues to be my favorite in this regard, even though some of his chapters brought tears to my eyes. Magiano is also fun to read about, and we do learn a little bit more about his past.
A highlight is that the focus of the novel is more on the Elites, their powers, and the world they live in; it is about responsibility and power and balance. There is very little romance in the story, which, yay! And one could argue that the most important relationship in the series is actually that between Adelina and her sister, as it plays an instrumental role in the development of the plot.
As the final book in the series, The Midnight Star gives us a fitting ending to Adelina and the Elites’ stories. It moves in the direction I was expecting it to, but its predictability doesn’t take away from the story. This is a great ending to this series, and I’m sad it has come to an end.
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Review of The Young Elites • Review of The Rose Society
Series: #3 and final in The Young Elites series.
POV: Told mainly from Adelina and Raffaele’s POVs, with chapters from Maeve, Magiano, Terren, and Violetta’s POVs.
Content Warnings:
Spoiler
Branding. Also sadness all around, I cried at least 3 different times.Cliffhanger: No.
HEA:
Spoiler
I’d say yes.
the last 50 pages of this book are so amazing! and the ending was so good!!
i was going to give this a 2.5/5 stars but then the last ten chapters changed my mind as adelina’s character progression became clear and her actions made me finally like her. i was also not expecting that ending so extra points for the plot twist.
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
:( I would've loved it more if it ended differently, but regardless, a lovely ending indeed.
I guess I wasn't as interested in the series as when I started it, too much time passed from my reading of The Rose Society. It doesn't help that I wasn't that much of a fan of the series in the first place. I mean, I really liked the first two books, I did, but I still prefer the Legend trilogy and I was never into Adelina's story as much as everyone else.
I really didn't care about the characters and the story, I just finished it because I didn't want another unfinished series. I think this is the weakest of the three installments, the plot was not so great and the characters don't really evolve, maybe with the exception of Adelina, but her character development can't be compared to the change she went through in the first two books. Actually, in my opinion she reached her climax at the end of The Rose Society and from there on she just came slowly back to herself. It was the contrary of development, in some way. But, you can't not admit that she is one of the best villains of YA. She's so relatable, I rooted for her even though she's evil.
I can't give this book more than 3 stars, unfortunately. I still love Marie Lu's writing and ideas, though. I'm really excited for Warcross and I'm quite sure I'm going to like it as much as I liked the Legend trilogy.
I really didn't care about the characters and the story, I just finished it because I didn't want another unfinished series. I think this is the weakest of the three installments, the plot was not so great and the characters don't really evolve, maybe with the exception of Adelina, but her character development can't be compared to the change she went through in the first two books. Actually, in my opinion she reached her climax at the end of The Rose Society and from there on she just came slowly back to herself. It was the contrary of development, in some way. But, you can't not admit that she is one of the best villains of YA. She's so relatable, I rooted for her even though she's evil.
I can't give this book more than 3 stars, unfortunately. I still love Marie Lu's writing and ideas, though. I'm really excited for Warcross and I'm quite sure I'm going to like it as much as I liked the Legend trilogy.
In this third book, we continue to follow Adelina and her quest for revenge. The story does well to tie up some of the storylines and characters that we were introduced to in the first two books. I found the book to be a little slow compared to the other two but liked the way it ended.