Reviews tagging 'Death'

Legend by Marie Lu

82 reviews

terrywho's review

adventurous dark emotional tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

Besides the relationship being a bit too insta-lovey for my taste this was a lot better than what I remember from my YA dystopia phase back in 2014. The world is pretty basic but Day is a charming protagonist and I did like how much they committed to the deaths in the book. Let’s see if I actually finish the trilogy this time

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

maximus_midnight's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Grief, Death of parent, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Cursing, Medical content, Kidnapping, Murder, Colonisation, and Classism

Minor: Child abuse and Car accident

creolelitbelle's review against another edition

adventurous challenging tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

I read about 85% of this book in one day. Some of the topics - vaccines, plagues - hit closer to modern real issues than I would have liked, but the action and character relationships are riveting. Hopefully, the mystery of what happened to the USA to create the Colonies and Republic takes shape in subsequent books. The romance, while very quickly developing, makes sense with how June and Day mirror one another in their core ideologies. Like with Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard, I do anticipate reading further into the series for learning what transpires after the great chaos at the end of book one. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Violence, Mass/school shootings, Death of parent, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Police brutality

my3bb8's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

justagirlwithbooks's review against another edition

4.0

"Each day means a new twenty-four hours. Each day means everything's possible again. You live in the moment, you die in the moment, you take it all one day at a time."

This book was so good, I read it all in one sitting. Initially found this book because of Dylan is in Trouble, and I'm so glad I picked it up. The book is flawed but still, it's good. I love a good cat and mouse chase. I love Day, I love John, I love Metias. The action, the suspense, the politics... I loved it. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death and Violence

eruneckles's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Violence

nrogers_1030's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.25

I found the story hard to get into until Day gets arrested. I liked it once it picked up, but not enough to continue the series.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Gun violence, Violence, Police brutality, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

unusuallyy's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

the worldbuilding is insane. i loved the book, but my book club thought it was quite odd and dissed a lot of things in it lmao.

june's brother's last words are like...unnecessarily long, and he still babies june after all this time.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Violence

Moderate: Gun violence, Torture, and Murder

Minor: Car accident

drewett's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Torture and Violence

Minor: Police brutality

brooke_pearson's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious fast-paced

• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

I liked the characters decently and loved the idea for the plot, but the writing is pretty bad. For example, I understand that June and Day are supposed to be smart, but it gets to a point where it's annoying how  quickly they solve things. There are also some parts where it's super analytical and boring (not a direct quote, just an example of a similar scene: "We were moving at x feet per second. We needed to travel x feet. But the 23 soldiers were moving faster than us, and they'd catch up to us at x feet.")

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Gun violence, Torture, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Cursing and Car accident