The Young Elites

Okay so not going to lie; I started another post a while ago where I was going to have short snappy descriptions of a bunch of books I read recently but it was taking too long so I'm going to start from scratch.

The Young Elites

By: Marie Lu 

(same author as the Legend series- if you haven't read it yet, you definitely should)

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I got off to kind of a rocky start with this book as I checked it out from the library a couple times and both times ended up not being able to read it, but in the end I'm glad I went for magic number 3 because it was really good.

This book is about this girl named Adelina who lives in an abusive household. When she was really young she got the blood fever. Some of the survivors of this fever have marks and so they are labeled malfettos and are a disgrace to their families. However, some of these malfettos have powers and it turns out that Adelina is one of them. These people are called the Young Elites and there is a group of them called the Dagger Society who recruit Adelina.

However, there are complications which of course I can't give away because that would spoil the book but suffice it to say that Adelina's powers are much stronger than everyone expects and she isn't able to control them as well as the Dagger Society would like.

I really enjoyed this book because it was different. Especially at the end, you think you know how everything is going to work out and then BAM! it doesn't work out the way you expect which was incredibly refreshing. The whole thing with the powers was kind of similar to Steelheart (I don't know which came out first) but at the same time it was totally different and it didn't occur to me that they were even remotely similar until just now.

I definitely recommend this book to everyone looking for something out of the ordinary- especially if you are a fantasy fan and even if you're not, broaden your experiences, try something new and read it anyway.