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A review by mrs_galaxywanderer091825
The Young Elites by Marie Lu
4.0
This book is really a 4.25 star rating for me.
"The Young Elites" by Mrs. Marie Lu packs a big punch to people who read it (whether that punch is bad or good depends on the reader). For me that punch was good and it left my emotions all jumbled together by the time I reached the end. It was a difficult book to put down.
The characters all have secrets and hidden agendas; this is literally a book where nothing is as it seems as everyone has a disguise. I for one liked the complexity but at times it seemed the complexity of the characters and the situations they were in made this book a bit too busy and hectic. It became overwhelming and confusing at points throughout the book, but everything can't together in a way that made sense to me.
I found myself frustrated and even angry at some of the characters in this book because of all their hidden layers. I just wanted someone to be authentic and in the end there seems to be only one character (Michel) who is authentic. [I'm not sure if this is true though because he's hardly in the book. We don't know much about him except what someone has observed of him currently or in the past.] Still I did grow to care about most of the characters and was saddened by the ending. Admittingly I'm disappointed in how the ending turned out but I understand it. I found myself rooting for certain outcomes in relationships among the characters and was saddened when they didn't happen. Upon reflection I see how this book has to end the way it does even if it's not how I wanted. It's realistic and maybe even necessary for character growth. I'll definitely be reading the next book in the trilogy to see what happens next. It'll be interesting to see what happens among all the relationships since they've changed so much in this book.
"The Young Elites" by Mrs. Marie Lu packs a big punch to people who read it (whether that punch is bad or good depends on the reader). For me that punch was good and it left my emotions all jumbled together by the time I reached the end. It was a difficult book to put down.
The characters all have secrets and hidden agendas; this is literally a book where nothing is as it seems as everyone has a disguise. I for one liked the complexity but at times it seemed the complexity of the characters and the situations they were in made this book a bit too busy and hectic. It became overwhelming and confusing at points throughout the book, but everything can't together in a way that made sense to me.
I found myself frustrated and even angry at some of the characters in this book because of all their hidden layers. I just wanted someone to be authentic and in the end there seems to be only one character (Michel) who is authentic. [I'm not sure if this is true though because he's hardly in the book. We don't know much about him except what someone has observed of him currently or in the past.] Still I did grow to care about most of the characters and was saddened by the ending. Admittingly I'm disappointed in how the ending turned out but I understand it. I found myself rooting for certain outcomes in relationships among the characters and was saddened when they didn't happen. Upon reflection I see how this book has to end the way it does even if it's not how I wanted. It's realistic and maybe even necessary for character growth. I'll definitely be reading the next book in the trilogy to see what happens next. It'll be interesting to see what happens among all the relationships since they've changed so much in this book.