I liked the parkour action mixed with the dystopian setting of the world.
"Legend" is one of the most balanced dual narrator books I have read on a long time. Our protagonists, Day and June, are from completely different sides of society. June is from a wealthy military family. Day lives on the street and spends his time committing rebellious acts against the government. Both characters are very well developed, and over the course of the story we are able to watch them grow and change.
Despite the fact that Day and June are from opposite sides of a conflict, Lu is able to make both sides have equally strong voices and justifications for their actions and choices. As I was reading Days perspective I would think, "Yeah, that totally makes sense, the government is a bunch of pigs, they deserve what theyre getting." Then the perspective would switch to June and Id be forced to see the consequences of what Day had done. Id immediately sympathize with the government. As impressive as the protagonists are, I wish the secondary characters were given the same amount of depth.
The plot is interesting and moves at a good pace. There are several twists that I never saw coming. Some of the twists were very predictable, however, the most obvious being the relationship between Day and June. Not only could I see it coming a mile away, I just didnt buy into it and felt like it wasnt needed. The meat and potatoes of the story is the conflict between the rebels and the government. The story should have stayed focused on that, but it seems to be a prerequisite that all young adult fiction have at least one relationship in it, if not several different ones.
Overall I really enjoyed this and I am looking forward to reading the rest of the series. I hope that in later books we get to see more of the government and better developed secondary characters. Id recommend this to fans of dystopian fiction with corrupt governments, heavy on world building and plot with light romance.
Not too shabby, but not too amazing either.
This book has two perspectives/narrators: Day, who is a 15 year old boy out to protect his family from a plague that is spreading about and June, who is a 15 year old girl who loves her brother and has zipped through schooling with perfection in a safe feeling environment. I don't want to give anything away, but they live in a "Republic" after something occurs in the US, as if the United States was something unknown.
Although this has some creativity involved in it, I don't understand how it seems credible either. I didn't even really get into this book until after the first 100 pages, but I think the ending was far too rushed and sloppy.
The first in another YA trilogy that fans of divergent, etc... may like. However I didn't think this one was early as deep and tended to be a little predictable. Not sorry I read it because it was a fast read and an interesting plot, but the depth of the story wasn't there and many of the 'twists' were predictable. I may read the next one at some point if the friend who loaned me this one has it to loan as well.
Another entry in the ever-expanding YA dystopic genre, Legend was a decently-written book with an interesting concept but I didn't find anything about this novel to stand out (positively or negatively). It was a quick read and the story moved along apace, but I didn't feel a genuine connection with any of the characters or shocked by any of the plot twists. The story was frequently moved along by coincidences that seemed a bit of a reach. That said, if you're a fan of the genre there's no reason not to read this one. I don't think I liked it enough to read the other two books in the trilogy (Prodigy and Champion) but I wouldn't be opposed to reading something different by the author in the future.