Legend

The author of the Book “Legend” is Marie Lu. The book starts off with a boy named Day who is a rebel against the law. He has a family but; his family thinks he’s dead. He runs around pulling off little crimes with his partner Tess. Day is trying to make money to save up for a plague cure. The plague is a disease. Day is searching for the cures in a hospital and ends up killing this soldier who is the older brother of this girl named June. June hunts him down for the death of her brother but starts to like him while she is undercover. In the end Day gets captured and is sentenced to death but makes an escape with the help off June.

The story is about a boy searching for a cure for his family and to help save them from being sentenced to death. This boy kills a soldier who is an older brother of this girl who then wants revenge. This girl goes undercover to catch this boy but ends up staying to long and starts to like him more and more. They both like each other but then the boy finds out she has been hunting him down and waiting to arrest him. This boy is sentenced to death but this girl doesn’t feel like it’s the right thing. She then plans an escape plan with him and decides to break him out. Their plan doesn’t fully work so they wing it and get out just barley and decide to live and run together.

Legend is a thrilling book to read it keeps you entertained every time you read it. It has so many different plots and changes in the book and you have to think a lot more to keep up with the book itself. It has a good plot and the characters are all good characters. It ends in a very suspenseful and romantic kind of way.  

Book Review by Trace B.