Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Legend book review

Legend (Legend book #1 of 3.5) by Marie Lu
























Paperback305 pages
Read: Nov. 18
Rating: 4.5/5
Genres: Young Adult, Dystopia, Action, Adventure, Romance
Summery: From different worlds, June and Day have no reason to cross paths...
Until June's brother is murdered, and Day becomes the prime suspect.
In a shocking turn of events, the two uncover what has really brought them together, and the sinister lengths to which their country will go to keep its secrets.

Review: The story starts from Day's P.O.V. in Lake Sector, with Day hidden from view watching the soldiers doing routine plague checks. 10 pages later we switch to June's P.O.V. at Drake University in Batalla Sector, June is in the dean's secretary's office again. The pacing for this story reminds me of the Penryn and the End of Days series by Susan Ee, as well as The Maze Runner Series by James Dashner, this story has a fast pace to it, and feels like a movie playing in my head, which I really enjoyed. I really liked both Day and June, as well as June's brother Metias, Day's brother John, and Tess. I did end up figuring out the situation with Metias around the second time we switch to June's P.O.V. (I suspected what happened in the first 20 pages), as well as figuring out what was going on with the plague virus's about page 118, I don't know if this was because of how the writing played out or if I've read too many Dystopian, and Post-Apocalyptic books that I what was going on with those two situations.But either way I did really like the story. Of course with Young Adult novels comes romance, while the romance doesn't really come about until around 100 pages so I got to know both characters enough that it didn't feel fast, but it did develop quite fast. I really liked this book, and can't wait to read the rest in the other two in this series. I also really liked the fact that through out the book June and Day's P.O.V's were short (anywhere from 1 to 12 pages), so you could get their perspectives on events quickly, I also liked that you could tell who's P.O.V. you were reading not only from a personality perspective, but each part has their name on the corner of the page, as well as June's type being in black and Day's type being in a matte gold color, the boldness of the lettering is also different June's being Thin and Day's being slightly thicker.

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