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Legend by Marie Lu

15 reviews

moonvcmll's review

challenging mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality and Gun violence

Minor: Car accident and Death of parent

tania_mybookishsecret's review

adventurous dark emotional 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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, Death of parent, Blood, Gun violence, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: War

Minor: Car accident

haley49's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring 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

5.0

I loved everything about this book from the pacing to the characters to the plot. The only nitpicks I have are about gaps in world building and that emotional beats aren’t given the space to have lasting impact but I think that’s just the fast paced narrative. I can’t wait to read the next book(s).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, Murder, Death of parent, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Genocide, Blood, Car accident, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Physical abuse, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Abandonment, Police brutality, Torture, Child death, Forced institutionalization, Medical trauma, and War

sammymilfort's review

dark informative reflective tense fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Body horror, Classism, Confinement, Violence, Gun violence, Medical content, Torture, Child abuse, Colonisation, Death of parent, Gore, Grief, Medical trauma, Blood, and Physical abuse

Minor: Car accident

avocados_from_mexico's review

adventurous tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

1.5

Legend. Where do I start with this book? There were so many things to dislike about this book, from the unlikable, unrealistic characters, to the dry writing, to the government, to the one scene where

Spoiler

a man in his twenties tries to kiss a fifteen year old??

. Anyways, the book was terrible, and throughout my reading experience, I wondered why it was so popular.

The story follows June, a young prodigy who’s the only person to have gotten a perfect score on the United States’… sorry, Republic’s aptitude test… sorry, Trial, which is meant to find the best children to join the war effort against the rest of the United States, the Patriots. She lives with her twenty-something year old brother Metias because their parents were killed, and goes to a top university where she trains to be in the military. Her commander tends to be a bit… trigger-happy, and so does her friend Thomas, but they justify it enough to the point where she’s convinced what they’re doing is correct. There’s also no reason for this war that is provided. Also they kill the kids that fail the Trial, but their parents are told they work at labor camps.

And then we have Day, the Republic’s most wanted criminal despite the fact that most of his offenses would only be enough to classify him as a large nuisance. He’s never killed anyone, but now he’s being accused of killing Metias. The only thoughts he is capable of having are about how attractive all of the girls he meets are. He’s on the run because he’s never been caught by the Republic, but he rescues June while her commander sends her to catch him undercover. And then June finds out who he is because she conveniently goes down tangents of extremely unrealistic thoughts that advance the plot!

Spoiler

And guess what. He also got a perfect score! But he’s from the slums so they tried to kill him off!

So Day nearly gets executed. But since June likes him and kissed him before she knew who he was, she’s sympathetic. She goes down another convenient tangent and finds out that

Spoiler

Thomas killed Metias and her commander is trying to hide it

. But also she hikes who knows how far (there’s no map, but the author constantly mentions sectors, which was really confusing) to find some known Patriots to try to set off a plan. So Thomas shoots everyone and June and Day nearly die, Day conveniently has a brother that looks identical to him and has a June-esque unrealistic tangent and figures out what happened, and his brother gets killed instead and now June and Day have to hide from the evil government, which has no reason to be evil as far as I know.

The writing was incredibly dry and it was really hard to get through at times. I had to finish it because I had to read it for a school assignment, but if I could, I would have put this book down for good. Maybe the author’s other books are better, but I could not get through this one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, Death of parent, Gun violence, and Murder

Moderate: Torture and Grief

Minor: War and Car accident

bri__'s review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

I really enjoyed this, it was thrilling and kept me hooked from the beginning. I am terrified as to how the series will play out because I know it will somehow end with me emotionally scarred (kidding, hopefully, probably). I love Day and June I find them to be interesting characters and although their relationship doesn't have much depth I am very much still rooting for its success. Definitely recommend, strongly suggest checking content warnings.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, War, Medical trauma, Blood, Gun violence, Murder, Police brutality, Torture, Violence, Death, Death of parent, and Grief

Moderate: Classism and Medical content

Minor: Car accident

luxxltyd's review

adventurous emotional mysterious sad fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Murder, Torture, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Death of parent, Death, Grief, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Medical content, Medical trauma, Car accident, and Terminal illness

emilyellen07's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Blood, Murder, Violence, and Grief

Minor: Car accident, Suicidal thoughts, and War

phoehems's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.5

Ahhhh!! This book was great. The way this is written is pretty simple, but the it doesn't take anything away from the story and the characters. June has great character development and I can't wait to see what she does in the next book. Day is just a great character. Like I can completely understand all his motives and there's nothing he does that makes me dislike him. I may be saying this prematurely as this is only the first book... but I can't deny he's really well written. 50 pages in and I'm already crying...

Spoiler

Metias - I definitely saw something in this character. I have always loved brother sister relationships in books/shows/films etc. Probably because that's my family. But Metias' death... that stung

brace yourself!

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Death of parent and Torture

Minor: Car accident

caitlinreadss's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

5.0

This book was an easy 5 stars and a super easy book to read! It has fully put me in the dystopia mood and I could t put it down. 
I’m less than 300 pages, Marie Lu has created two very loveable main characters - a super-genius, super-athletic young girl looking to avenge her murdered brother and a notorious young boy who is the city’s most wanted criminal who had supposedly murdered said girls brother (among plenty other crimes). Both incredibly brilliant characters who are more equal in ways neither could imagine. 
This book is so fast- paced and so action-packed you’ll finish it so quickly and before you know it, will be on to the sequel and within these 300 pages, Marie Lu has now made it into one of my must read/buy authors - I would genuinely read their shopping list! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Violence, and Gun violence

Moderate: Medical content and Death

Minor: Death of parent and Car accident