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A review by idratherbereading542
Legend by Marie Lu
4.0
Legend is, according to it's author, inspired by Les Misérables -- a more modern day version of course. I really haven't read or seen Les Misérables so I can't really compare that as much. But it's about a girl and a boy from two very different worlds whose paths cross and intertwine until finally their paths merge.
This was a good story and I got through it pretty quickly (which is always a good sign for me). The beginning was a bit slow, but once you got into the meat of the book it started to get more and more interesting. With attempted prison escapes, government conspiracies, and everything in between it's bound to be fast paced, which is how I like my books. So that was really good.
What I didn't like was that this book swaps between June and Day's point-of-views, which isn't so bad and I actually like in some books. But the problem is that BOTH of their POV's are in the first-person. If it wasn't for there being a different colored font for Day than for June, then it would've been hard to keep track of whose head we were inside. But the font variation did help in that sense. However, the gold font used for Day was at times hard on the eyes. This entire aspect I found to be kind of distracting throughout the book. I think it would've been better just do them both from the third-person.
But aside from that it was a pretty good book. Some of it was a little too much military inspired for my tastes. I love a dystopian that has government conspiracies. But at times I just wasn't digging the whole military aspect of it. Despite that though discovering some of the conspiracies and terrible things going on inside the government they think are the good guys was definitely interesting to see unfold.
Overall though, it got super interesting near the end there and made for a great lee-way into the next book. I can't wait to see what happens. It was a fast-paced dystopian with lots of questions and mysteries to ponder but not enough to make you tear your hair out with wondering the answers (which can be good or bad, depending on your preference lol).
This was a good story and I got through it pretty quickly (which is always a good sign for me). The beginning was a bit slow, but once you got into the meat of the book it started to get more and more interesting. With attempted prison escapes, government conspiracies, and everything in between it's bound to be fast paced, which is how I like my books. So that was really good.
What I didn't like was that this book swaps between June and Day's point-of-views, which isn't so bad and I actually like in some books. But the problem is that BOTH of their POV's are in the first-person. If it wasn't for there being a different colored font for Day than for June, then it would've been hard to keep track of whose head we were inside. But the font variation did help in that sense. However, the gold font used for Day was at times hard on the eyes. This entire aspect I found to be kind of distracting throughout the book. I think it would've been better just do them both from the third-person.
But aside from that it was a pretty good book. Some of it was a little too much military inspired for my tastes. I love a dystopian that has government conspiracies. But at times I just wasn't digging the whole military aspect of it. Despite that though discovering some of the conspiracies and terrible things going on inside the government they think are the good guys was definitely interesting to see unfold.
Overall though, it got super interesting near the end there and made for a great lee-way into the next book. I can't wait to see what happens. It was a fast-paced dystopian with lots of questions and mysteries to ponder but not enough to make you tear your hair out with wondering the answers (which can be good or bad, depending on your preference lol).