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A review by eesh25
The Rose Society by Marie Lu
5.0
First of all, kudos to Marie Lu for writing such a hate-able character from scratch right before our eyes. It was quite the feat.
Which leads me to my next point. I didn't notice before that a large part of the book is written in third-person, present tense. Third-person, present, in my opinion, is the mosts difficult one to get right. And Marie Lu did it. That was also ver impressive.
Now for my feeling about the book.
This is a very dark book. It's almost hard to see it as a YA because the characters don't exactly act like teenagers and there are a few could-have-been-graphic scenes as well.
I spent most of the book wishing someone would kill Adelina, or hurt her, or even simply snap her out of her self-pitying self-righteousness. Because lets be honest, if she ever realized what a horrible person she's become, she will most probably implode.
And you know what, it turns out the Daggers are the good guys, "good" being a relative term.
I apologise if this review is all over the place. It's because my head is also all over the place. I'm not sure how to organise either.
Overall, I loved the writing and the plot and the character development. I liked the direction the author decided to take the story (even if it is killing me) and I'm very eager to find out how this series will conclude.
I definitely recomment this series. Just go in knowing that it's very dark and the protagonist is the antagonist.
Which leads me to my next point. I didn't notice before that a large part of the book is written in third-person, present tense. Third-person, present, in my opinion, is the mosts difficult one to get right. And Marie Lu did it. That was also ver impressive.
Now for my feeling about the book.
This is a very dark book. It's almost hard to see it as a YA because the characters don't exactly act like teenagers and there are a few could-have-been-graphic scenes as well.
I spent most of the book wishing someone would kill Adelina, or hurt her, or even simply snap her out of her self-pitying self-righteousness. Because lets be honest, if she ever realized what a horrible person she's become, she will most probably implode.
And you know what, it turns out the Daggers are the good guys, "good" being a relative term.
I apologise if this review is all over the place. It's because my head is also all over the place. I'm not sure how to organise either.
Overall, I loved the writing and the plot and the character development. I liked the direction the author decided to take the story (even if it is killing me) and I'm very eager to find out how this series will conclude.
I definitely recomment this series. Just go in knowing that it's very dark and the protagonist is the antagonist.