The Young Elites, Marie Lu
I pulled this one out of a Little Free Library. It's the story of a young girl in an Italian renaissance-era type fantasy land, Adelina, who survived a deadly fever ten years earlier as a child, but this fever, as it swept through the realms, marked its victims, and some of them developed supernatural powers. Kind of like the Powerless series I read. But in this one, the Inquisition is out to destroy all of these marked ones.
Adelina and her younger sister live with their widowed father, who is controlling and cruel. He has plans to marry off his beautiful youngest daughter, and he is going to sell off Adelina to be a concubine, since she is plague marked. She doesn't seem to have a power, but he tries over and over to induce situations that will awaken a power, because it might make her more valuable to sell. But it never happens, until one night, she hears he is going to sell her into sex slavery, and she runs away from home. He catches her, and in her panic to flee, a power emerges.
This begins her journey into escaping the Inquisition, joining a group known as the Young Elites, and trying to learn to control her power, while also trying to figure out who she can really trust, and seeking unconditional love and acceptance.
I did enjoy this book, It was darker than I expected, but it left me wanting to read the next book in the series, which I will need to search for!
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