A review by unavezmas
The Elite by Kiera Cass

slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated

3.5

I liked it. It has less of romance and more of politics than the first one. I am curious as to where this rebellion will lead. And it treats some of more serious and mature topics as well.

I can see America's character development. She was a humble undecisive girl and now she will anhialite anyone who looks at her boyfriend Maxon wrongly. Unfortunatelly it can't be said about the other characteres. I stopped noticing the other Selected somewhere in book one. There were just too many.

I disliked the plottwist of the king (is his name even mentioned?)
being a fucking domestic tyrant. If Maxon doesn't kick his ass I will be very disappointed. If they pull out "but he is his father and so he shall forgive him" plottwist I will be very dissappointed.
It felt so out-of-place.

The fact that Illea was a tyrant himself wasn't unexpected but it still was surprising.  For real why become a president if you can become a king?
 

The series have hunger games vibe. Probably because they are both YA and dystopian. 🤣
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