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The Rose Society by Marie Lu

10 reviews

gracelang_09's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25


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a_walton18's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75


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noellelovesbooks's review

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dark fast-paced

4.5

 

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: Violence, abuse, human trafficking, police brutality, slavery, torture, self-harm, murder, child abuse, blood/gore, and attempts at genocide.


Much like book one, we bounce back and forth between four different perspectives. We get to follow Adelina, Raffaele, and Teren [who we all saw a lot of in book one] along with Maeve [who we met at the very end of book one]. Mostly seeing the story, through Adelina’s POV, we see her grappling with the events of book one and how each event has impacted her actions, throughout book two.


During the first book, we see the Young Elite gather, train, and formulate a plan to take down the King and Queen of Kenettra. We saw a young, somewhat timid, and scared Adelina learn to grow confident in herself, and her powers, during everything she’s experienced. Now in book two we see Adelina strike out on her own, since the Elite cast her out at the end of book one, and try to form her own team of Elite to strike back at the Inquisitors and the crown of Kenettra herself.


I was surprised at how intense and dark this book became. As Adelina’s powers grow so does the darkness within, that Raffaele warned about. This was an incredible read and I can’t wait to jump into book three and see how this series ends. 


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pawprintedpages's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0


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robin_reads's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
Uffff what a ride! I feel sorry for Adelina. I see her point tho but there’s a fine line she doesn’t even see.. can’t wait to find out how this is going to end 

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anniereads221's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional medium-paced
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5


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pip72156907's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark mysterious medium-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

4.0

man the first half of this was all filler but the second half picked up so damn fast I loved it. The scenes are so easy to picture and I always love it when a character turns dark! boring at first, but worth it for the whole book overall.

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ghostams's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

The emotional arc keeps going, as well as introducing new characters.  Without giving anything away, you love/hate the main character a whole lot.

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aseel_reads's review against another edition

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dark mysterious medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

you know what, mad respect for Lu for creating such a revenge obsessed MC - we 👏🏼love👏🏼 to 👏🏼see👏🏼 it 👏🏼

I actually really enjoy following Adelina's story, I can totally support her anger and hurt and I really want the best for her. low key worried about how this will end 

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danaleelin's review against another edition

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adventurous dark fast-paced
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5


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