Hey guys! It's Trina and this is my
non-spoiler full series review of The
Young Elites trilogy by Marie Lu. The first
book is The Young Elites,
the second book is The Rose Society, and
the last book is The Midnight Star. I
rated this series really highly. I really
enjoyed it so today I just want to let
you guys know what this one is about and
some of my favorite things about it in hopes
that maybe that will let you know if you
want to read this one or not if you like
those things, and if you don't like those things maybe
you don't want to read it, but hopefully
this will help you know if this is a series
that you want to start, or want to
continue, or maybe just want to skip
altogether. The Young Elites is a YA fantasy
and I once heard it described as X-men set
in Renaissance Italy and I feel like
that is a great description for it. I
definitely don't disagree. The characters
in the story do have powers that are
pretty reminiscent of the X-men and
Renaissance Italy was Marie Lu's
inspiration for this world. To give you
more detail about it, this is a high
fantasy series, so it's set in a world
unlike our own. There are maps in the
front of each of these three books and
it is about a world where an illness has
swept through the land. The people
that were unaffected by it, they are just
normal people, they are the ones that are
in power, and then the people who were
affected by the illness - a lot of them
died but the ones that survived it were
left with these scars and these markings,
and our main character is one of the
people who was afflicted by this illness
and she has scarring up the side of her
face and onto her head, so it actually
caused her to lose her eye and it turned
her once black hair to silver white.
The people that have these markings are very
easily recognizable and so because of
that people think they're dirty and they
really face a lot of oppression - they
aren't fed enough, they aren't paid enough.
Some of the people who were marked by
the illness were also granted the
ability to change the elements around
them. Not everyone that was marked bythe
illness has them but a select few do and it
becomes apparent pretty early on that
Adelina actually has some of these
powers. She has the ability to cast
illusions, so she can make anybody see
whatever she wants them to see. When
her powers manifest, this like secret
society group finds her and kind of
takes her in under their wing. This
particular group is looking to restore
justice to the kingdom and they take Adelina in
in hopes of training her and having her
on their side. She doesn't necessarily want to
use her powers for good. A lot of people
have called this trilogy a villain origin
story and that is another pretty good
description of it. Adelina struggles with
her inner darkness and the thing that
makes her such a compelling character is
she knows what she's doing is wrong and
she does kind of struggle with it.
Sometimes she can do the right thing. You
know that she is capable of doing good
as well, and I think that's something that's
great about all of the characters in
this story. Even the heroes are very often
deceptive even towards each other. They
have their own personal agenda. And the
villains in this story
sometimes are motivated by love. I
really just enjoyed how sometimes you didn't
know who you wanted to root for. Were you
rooting for the good guys or the bad
guys? Did you want Adelina to slay
everybody or did you want her to be
taken down? The characters are very
complex in terms of just like their
internal morality, theor integrity. They
felt very real. I think that Marie Lu writes
wonderful characters and this group of
characters that we follow are very
diverse as well. They are diverse in race
and sexuality. I also think that the idea
of this illness having marked some people
who are discriminated against was a
really great way to examine oppression
and privilege of society and you wonder
what's going to happen. Like, if the
tables are flipped are the people who were
once oppressed gonna rise up and
do the same thing back to their
oppressors or are they going to stop
that cycle? I really enjoyed the plot of
this trilogy. I thought that the writing
moved it along really well. I was gripped from
almost the beginning. There are at times
moments where I feel like the pacing of
these books were a little bit slow
because you spend a lot of time
preparing to do something and then it
would happen all of a sudden, and then you'd
go back to preparing for the next
thing and that would happen all of a sudden,
but I was always impressed with how things
were unfolding. Unfortunately the
series doesn't have as much hype as it
deserves. This is a really strong and
complex world, strong and complex
characters. I really enjoy the themes
that it explores and how each of us can
make the decision to do the right thing
or do the wrong thing and unfortunately
this one doesn't get as much hype and I think maybe
that's because some people think the
characters are unlikable, or maybe
because this one doesn't rely on a ton
of romance - there is some romance in here but
it's not very heavy - and it also doesn't rely
on twist after twist after twist. The things
that came along that surprised me were
things that I felt were very natural and
they weren't that surprising because I felt
like I knew that was going to happen but I just
can't believe how Lu wrote this, you
know? So I was always impressed by the
series but I don't think it relies on
gimmicks as much as other series do and
the finale was, it just, it left everything
so satisfied for me. I did notice last
year that most of the fantasy series I
finished, the last book in the series
would leave me very underwhelmed, and when
I finished this series I was just kind of
sitting there like, 'that was fulfilling!'
Like that is what I want when I have a
series ending. I think that she wraps
everything up very well. She takes risks.
All three of the books in the series
kill characters off - I'm not going to tell you who -
but there's constantly that risk of
these characters may not survive. And at
the end and there are a lot of risks, it
doesn't take the easy way out. Everything
that happened, you understand why it happened,
you understand why the characters were
acting that way and exactly what the end
result of their actions were going to be,
and even though sometimes the series is
dark I do still feel like it leaves you
with hope. So I was very fulfilled with
the ending to the series. I definitely
felt like it was one worth finishing,
worth reading all three books of. I was
very impressed with book 1, it took me a long
time to get around to reading book 2 -
it took me like 2 or 3 years between the
first two books to even continue with
the series - but when I picked up book
2 I was just really glad I got back
into it. So overall this is a series that I
really enjoyed and I would personally
recommend it, especially if you like YA
fantasy or you like that combination
of the X-men set in renaissance Italy. I
do think that is a pretty apt
description. I thought the characters are
complex, the world is complex, the story was
unique, the cast was diverse, the plot was
interesting and gripping, I was very
invested in it. So yeah, I liked it and I
would recommend it. If you guys have
read this one and you didn't like it as
much please let me know why down below,
because I would like to hear a different
perspective on it, or if you read it and
you loved it let me know that, we can
gush about it together. Or if you're just
thinking about reading it hopefully
you'll let me know if this video was
helpful at all.
I hope I gave you guys a good overview of the
series even though it was a little bit
less structured than normal. Thank you guys so much
for watching and I will see you in the comments. Bye!
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