Book Review | The Rose Society by Marie Lu

I finally got around to reading The Rose Society by Marie Lu. A few months ago (or possibly a year ago), I read the first book in Marie Lu's fantasy series, The Young Elites. If you're familiar with Marie Lu, you might know that she wrote the Legend trilogy. I absolutely loved that trilogy. And, not surprisingly, I love The Young Elites series/trilogy (I'm not too sure yet).

Summary:
The Rose Society is the sequel to The Young Elites so I won't give you a summary of the second book. Instead, I'll give a summary of the first book, The Young Elites. The Young Elites takes place in a world where a deadly blood fever has broken out. Those who have been ill and survived have been forever marked and are known as malfettos. Some of these malfettos have special powers. Those chosen malfettos are called Young Elites. Adelina Amouterou is a malfetto and has been marked by the fever with pale hair and a scar on her eye. She escapes the wrath of her father and encounters the Dagger Society, a group of Young Elites. Adelina questions whether she can be a member of the Daggers while trying to suppress her growing dark side.

I apologize the summary wasn't as good as it could have been. However, I hope it was still informative. The Rose Society picks up right where the first book ended. It focused a lot on Adelina's character as she uncovered the darkness within her. I absolutely loved this book. Although I forgot most of what happened in the first book, I still found the story to be extremely fast-paced and interesting. The novel was written like it was meant to be a movie, much like how the Legend trilogy is. I thoroughly enjoyed Adelina's character, despite the fact that she is very dark. She's more of an anti-hero, and I found that refreshing.

Overall, I rate this book a 4/5 stars. The main reason that I didn't give it a 5/5 stars is that I wasn't absolutely blown away, even though I really enjoyed this book. I will definitely be continuing with this trilogy (series?) since I believe the third book should be coming out soon-ish.

I hope you check this book out! Happy reading!