Reviews with content warning for Vomit - Legendborn

This was a ride. Literally the only way for me to explain it at the moment. I was taken on a roller coaster of emotions and I loved it. If I could give this book a hundred stars I would. Bree’s journey of self discovery, navigating her grief and trauma…It all just hit home.

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Tracy did a wonderful job showing just how much slavery impacts Black people by taking Bree through memory walks with her ancestors. She shows how much of a hole not knowing where you come from or who came before you can leave. It’s a hole that I know well and I honestly cried 😂.

There are even characters that will have you pissed at first but then as the story progresses you get to see them in a whole new light. Making Bree and Alice best friends was also 👩🏾‍🍳💋. Alice is ride or die for Bree and vice versa. This story is one that can teach a lot of lessons but also take you for one heck of a ride filled with magic and secret societies. It’s astounding and hands down one of my favorite reads this year. I cannot wait to read BloodMarked.

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bloodbrooxv's review

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adventurous emotional inspiring mysterious reflective 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? Yes

4.25

Sono rimasta molto sorpresa da legendborn, soprattutto perché è la terza volta che provo a leggerlo.

Riconosco che è un problema mio, non della storia, anche perché superate le prime cento pagine non sono riuscita a staccarmi dalle vicende: la trama è coinvolgente, il sistema magico e l'idea dell'Ordine super originali, e i personaggi ben delineati, amabili e caratterizzati.

Ho adorato soprattutto Bree: è una protagonista molto solida, con una notevole crescita interiore attraverso tutto il libro e con una forza ammirevole. Mi sono piaciuti molto anche Nick, Alice e Sel: spero di riuscire a recuperare la novella su quest'ultimo che hanno rilasciato in esclusiva al Lucca comics.

Non vedo l'ora di leggere Bloodmarked, anche se penso aspetterò la traduzione italiana.

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sammymilfort's review

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adventurous dark emotional reflective sad 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? It's complicated

4.25

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aliciawhatsthestory's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional mysterious 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

My third, final, and favorite book club read of the month. This modern Arthurian retelling is definitely worth all the hype. It blends the Welsh legend with African traditional magic and creates something as new and unusual as Bree herself. It is a fun read, but it does not shy away from topics like slavery and colonization. I sped through this one, and I am on the edge of my seat awaiting the sequel, to be released in early November.

If you like retellings, magic, adventure, fated legacies, or YA fantasy, this is a great choice! I can’t wait to discuss it with the @solidstatedc Sci-Fi and Fantasy book club later this week.

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erinpatreiss's review

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adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.75

Legendborn- ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.75

After her mother dies in an accident, sixteen-year-old Bree Matthews wants nothing to do with her family memories or childhood home. A residential program for bright high schoolers UNC-Chapel Hill scems like the perfect escape until Bree witness a magical attack her very first night on campus.

A flying demon feeding on human energies.
A secret society of so-called "Legendlborn" students who hunt the creatures down.

And a mysterious teenage mage who calls him self a “Merlin” and who attempts -and fails- to wipe Bree's memory of every thing she saw,

The mage's failure reveals Bree's own unique magic and a buried memory with a hidden connection: the night her mother died, another Merlin was at the hospital. Now that Bree knows there's more to her mother's death than what's on the police report, she'll do whatever it takes to find out the truth, even if that means infiltrating the Legendborn as one of their initiates.

She recruits Nick, a self-exiled Legendlborn with his own grudge against the group, and their reluctant partnership pulls them deeper into the society's secrets and closer to each other. But when the Legendborn reveal themselves as the descendants of King Arthur's knights and explain that a magical war is coming, Bree has to decide how or she'll go for the truth and whether she should us her magic to take the society down- or join the fight

✨My Opinion✨
I really loved this book! The depiction of Bree’s grief, the knights of the round table lore, the acknowledgement of southern slave history and how messed up it is. There was so much I loved. It was awesome!

I do wish that Bree had been older than 16. It makes me wonder how many books will be in this series and if it will move from YA into NA territory. There is plenty of sexual tension… I am torn between if I want that to happen or not. With how fast the plot progresses, I think that this series won’t span a very long period of time.

My other mini complaint is that a little more physical descriptions of the characters throughout the book would have done wonders. At one point I couldn’t remember what one of the main characters looked like, and I had to go back to their intro to get the picture of them back in my head. I wasn’t thrilled to have been pulled out of the book for something easy to implicate just a tad more.

Other than that, I loved the exposition and learning about everything involved in the Lore of this magic system along side the MC’s. I can’t wait to get my hands on the second book!

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