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Nov 21, 2018susan_findlay rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
Darker and better than The Young Elites. Adelina's powers are pulling her toward darkness (or possibly emphasizing the darkness that's already there). In some respects, it's still hard to see her as a villain when the "other side" seems so much worse. But the author is trying. Reading this book immediately after a book about World War 2 may have made the parallels between the Malfetto work camps and the Nazi concentration camps a little too obvious - making it very very hard to feel that the person fighting against the side with concentration camps was actually the villain. Without that context, I might have found Adelina more evil. Certainly, by the end, I'm pretty sure she's supposed to be viewed as a Darth Vader type (consumed by greed for more power). I'm interested to see whether the third book in the trilogy continues to embrace Adelina's dark side or whether she has a miraculous recovery by the end.