“I don't know if anyone's ever told you this", he begins. He doesn't blush, and his eyes don't dart away. Instead I find myself staring into a pair of oceans - one perfect, the other blemished by that tiny ripple. "You're very attractive." catches me off guard. But it startles me so much that without thinking I blurt out, "I could say the same about you." I pause. "In case you didn't know."A slow grin spreads across his face. "Oh, trust me. I know.”

American young adult science fiction and fantasy author

Marie Lu is an American young adult science fiction and fantasy author. She is best known for the Legend series and for several other novels aimed at younger readers. Her work includes the dystopian, militarized world of Legend, along with the Young Elites series, the Warcross series, and Batman: Nightwalker in the DC Icons series. Her writing is associated with speculative fiction, especially stories set in imagined futures and focused on conflict, power, and survival.