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Legendary by Stephanie Garber

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shriya_v's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

3.0

I thought it was okay. It was pretty slow and I did put it down for a bit which is fine I think. I am giving this series a try and right now it is not wowing me but whatever lol. I really want to read the next series after this one so we shall see.

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rylin_marie's review

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adventurous challenging emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

the only reason i put the characters down as complicated when asking if they are loveable, is because i find them loveable, but i probably shouldn’t. this book was so so so good and i’m obsessed

one thing that annoyed me was scarlett. i feel like she completely contradicted her character in the first book. she made me really mad at times.

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i found the ending a little predictable. since the first book i suspected dante was legend. there were some aspects that i didn’t expect. i did NOT expect dante to save her and then just leave like nothing happened with them. that broke my heart.

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annamay1021's review

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adventurous dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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jessicaludden's review against another edition

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adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced

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

2.5

“Every good story needs a villain. But the best villains are the ones you secretly like.”

I am so surprised that I didn’t like this. It was going fine for most of the book, but the ending pushed it over the edge for me. I liked Tella enough to keep reading but I didn’t really care that much about her. I didn’t really like reading in her POV cause it was just an endless internal dialogue of her reiterating the stakes and the choices she had to make over and over as if I don’t already know what the stakes are. Her romance with Dante was slightly boring to me probably because I feel like he just kept popping up randomly to say a few things to her and leave. Dante being Legend just felt really forced and not surprising at all considering how many times Tella mentioned the possibility. The drama between Scarlett and Julian was annoying especially at the end. I literally just want them to be happy and together. The main thing I liked about this was Jacks of course but even the way things ended with his character in this book didn’t feel right to me (yes I know I’ll probably get more answers in Finale or OUABH). Tella being his one true love makes absolutely no sense to me, like I’m not sure if we’re trying for a love triangle here but I don’t want it. Overall, I was enjoying getting to explore a new part of this world and meet new characters (more like A new character) but the ending just left me disappointed.

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sweetbrinas's review

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adventurous emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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bluebreex's review against another edition

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adventurous funny mysterious 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? Yes

4.0

I do love the world and magic of this series! Legendary is filled with lots of fun twists and turns as well as betrayal and reveals. While I did see some of the reveals coming, watching them unravel was still very fun! (Also loved seeing Jacks again he's so special to me)

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thelovelyjade's review

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adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.25

I like this book and I have enjoyed it. It was nice to see Tella's side of the story as well as going into more of the magic of the world. The discription of the world is beautiful as well. It's so great to have descriptions of a great world.

The things I didn't like was every word break and ending on a period. It's not nice to read and nice to hear on audiobook, it breaks the immersion. Repetition was also an immersion break, it's not exciting to be kept reminding what someone is doing every page. Another thing I don't like...Dante, so boring, so bland. He's one of those guys that has no personality whatsoever and is just...'hot'.

Additionally, Tells is so impulsive and when you get reminded that she's 16 years old throughout the story...and yep, yep now I know why but it's still stupid because of what she could lose.

Overall, it's a an enjoyable book to read. So many adventures, magic and fantasy and fun with some flaws on some sides.

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bel017's review

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

It's wildly inappropriate that these very pretty but very very old men are chasing after girls, in a book aimed at girls. Tella is fifteen. These relationships are not OK.

It seems to me that

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it's Legend's blood that stops Tella from dying from Jacks's killer kiss. Her heart gets slower and slower until then, and then it starts beating properly when Legend does some shady behind the scenes stuff. The age difference between Legend and Jacks is appropriate. They have similar motivations and interests. The only appropriate outcome is that Legend is Jacks's true love. That would be an awesome enemies-to-lovers. I know that won't happen. These books are as straight as a die, and I've read the next series (I genuinely didn't realise Jacks was the LI in Once Upon a Broken Heart, who would think that? There's nothing about his character that's ok.)

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gaietta's review

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adventurous emotional mysterious relaxing 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

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avie_j's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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