Marie Lu
Author of Legend
About the Author
Marie Lu received an undergraduate degree from the University of Southern California. Before becoming a full-time author, she worked for Disney Interactive Studios as a flash artist. Her works include the Legend Trilogy and the Young Elites series. Book 1 of her Young Elites (same name) series made show more the New York Times bestseller list. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Series
Works by Marie Lu
Life After Legend 21 copies
The Young Elite 3 Books Set Marie Lu Collection (The Young Elites, The Rose Society, The Midnight Star) (2017) 12 copies
Life After Legend II 5 copies
Young Elites 2. Das Bündnis der Rosen: Düster-romantische Fantasy in historischem Setting (2019) 1 copy
Jóvenes de la élite. La sociedad de la rosa - Volumen 2: Los jóvenes de la élite, 2 (2016) 1 copy
Surviving 1 copy
Associated Works
A Tyranny of Petticoats: 15 Stories of Belles, Bank Robbers, and Other Badass Girls (2016) — Contributor — 381 copies
Current Futures: A Sci-Fi Ocean Anthology — Contributor — 6 copies
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Common Knowledge
- Legal name
- Lu, Xiwei
- Birthdate
- 1984-07-11
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
- Places of residence
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Occupations
- Art director (Online Alchemy Video Gaming)
owner (Fuzz Academy) - Agent
- Kristin Nelson
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Action/Adventure A boy named "Day" in Name that Book (November 2013)
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Statistics
- Works
- 46
- Also by
- 6
- Members
- 24,970
- Popularity
- #844
- Rating
- 4.0
- Reviews
- 1,135
- ISBNs
- 459
- Languages
- 16
- Favorited
- 13
Winter Young is the Taylor Swift of music in this book; he can't go anywhere that there's not a crowd. How do these people always find him?!? He's asked by a secret group, Panacea, to go undercover for them. He has skills, so he's really a good choice; he moves gracefully, learns moves quickly, and thinks several steps ahead. He's paired with Sydney--a 19-year-old agent who gets out of tight situations and gets the bad guy. Syd isn't happy about working with another pop star because they're difficult and self-centered. She finds Winter much more introspective and really train-able. He's really good. They are to get to one of the wealthiest people in the world and find out where chemical weapons will be shipped so that it can be stopped. The criminal has a daughter who loves Winter. Winter will be performing at the daughter's birthday party, so Panacea needs him to accept the invitation and help Syd. Syd will play his body guard.
Needless to say, many things go wrong, but Winter and Syd find they work well as a team. There are a few twists that may surprise you. I don't think it's super clever, but it was fun.… (more)