Legend

Legend a timely novel that really takes a good atmosphere and a widely known subject someone can get into. This book was written by Marie Lu, who also made two more sequels to this book. This is a morally good book and really has the feel of the hunger games. Not only does it go by a dystopian atmosphere, it also portrays good twists and good relationships in the story. It even takes time to make everything descriptive and easy to read with about 300 pages. Its overall theme is a mix of twist and mystery, with a hint of a corrupted government.

               

So let’s say one thing to straighten a lot of what you might think, it acts on a hunger games ideal. Well that is a no; it definitively takes a stand at its own way of thinking what a bad government of country is. There is actually two governments not one, with them having a war against each other, one is the Republic which is the main place it takes place in, and the colonies, which for some reason has a lot of spies in the republics government. Now let’s begin, the main plot is of two characters viewpoints not just one in particular. A wealthy girl called June Imparis who was born in an elite family that works for the Republic, and Day or Daniel Altan Wing, a criminal who is wanted from the Republic. Now it seems that the events of this book get even more interesting as they unfold so I won’t get into the book to much, but I will start with this. After Day tries to escape a hospital base with antidotes that cure a plague that infests the outskirts of the Republic in Los Angeles, he is run into a corner with a gun pointed at him. The person holding the gun is a man named Metias who is the brother of the girl named June, and so Metias is the captain of a soldier squad for the Republic police that try to find spies, so no wonder she got so wealthy. With a knife in his hand, Day throws it at Metias and run to the sewers, torn from the fall he made out of a hospital window. Time takes place before June finds out that Metias is dead from the knife in the middle of his chest. She soon wants revenge and starts an investigation to find and capture Day, with the motive of killing him. That is what I am going to tell you so far over the book and that’s where it actually gets twisted.

               

Now I’m going to say this book is amazing for such a little writer that just started on this story as her introduction, and to be honest I’m amazed she’s gone far to go and make to more out of this one concept. It has a good after taste and really shines in descriptive and mystery standards, were it gives big u-turns and twists of the book to make want to read more and discover what was really going on. What many people look in a book is suspense and drama, many teens like this sort of thing (like me), and this book chucks a lot of that in to make it a thrill ride. So I can really say that many people around the ages of 13 to 18 will really like this, and it really controls and explains government and how wars work seriously and easily. So I can give a big 9/10 on this book, with some things kind of not making sense in some parts of the book.    

Book Review by Ben M.