Young Elites
The Young Elites is a fantasy novel by novelist Marie Lu released on 7 October 2014.[1] It is the first novel in the planned trilogy. It follows the story of Adelina Amouteru. A decade after the blood fever swept through the nation, most survivors—all of whom were children—gained strange markings during their time of illness. Those with visible markings became known as ″malfettos″. When people close to ″malfettos″ or people who have family members who are ″malfettos″ began having strange accidents or sometimes even dying, people began to believe that ″malfettos″ were bad luck and they began being treated like second-class citizens. What people didn't originally know was that the blood fever gifted some of these ″malfetto″ children with strange abilities, and the children with these powers became known as The Young Elites. The Inquisition Axis believes that Young Elites are dangerous and vengeful and will destroy the nation. Thus, they seek to destroy them before they can do so.
Reviews
"I grew to enjoy this book! At first I was hesitant, but the darkness of the characters eventually sucked me in and I will definitely be reading book 2. "
"Adelina definitely surprised me. She's such a strong heroine. The kind we just love to have in our fantasy reads. It’s pretty crazy, to say, how easily she and I clicked. Turns out, even though I don’t believe myself to enjoy or, sometimes, want to hurt people, we have many things in common, such as fighting for what is dear to us, family and always trying our best."
"This book was absolutely perfect and exactly what I needed right now. I've been in some kind of readers' slump these days, but then I discovered this book and BOOOM I'm back om track baby!"
"I've felt so many emotions while reading this. I really felt Adelina's pain and loneliness. I felt happy when she was happy and was scared when she was scared. And that ending... oh the tearssss! I never expected and ending like that to be honest, it left me heartbroken and I still haven't fully processed everything that happened, but I loved everything about this book anyway and I wouldn't change a thing! I'm sure everything will turn out okay for everyone in the end.This was just such an emotional rollercoaster, involving just the right ratio of action and adventure."
"Marie Lu has quickly become one of my favorite authors ever. After reading the Legend series first, and now this one, she can really do no wrong in my opinion. Whatever book she'll release next, I'm gonna read it anyway!I can't wait to start reading the next book because I can't wait to see how Adelina's adventure continues!"
About Author
Marie Lu (www.marielu.org) is the author of the New York Times bestselling novels Legend, Prodigy, and Champion. Marie Lu (born Xiwei Lu) is an American young adult author. She is best known for the Legend series, novels set in a dystopian and militarized future. The novels form the basis of a movie to be produced by CBS Films[1] and directed by Jonathan LevineShe graduated from the University of Southern California and jumped into the video game industry, working for Disney Interactive Studios as a Flash artist. Now a full-time writer, she spends her spare time reading, drawing, playing Assassin’s Creed, and getting stuck in traffic. She lives in Los Angeles, California (see above: traffic), with one husband, one Chihuahua mix, and two Pembroke Welsh corgis.