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Book Review of Legend (Legend, Bk 1)

Legend (Legend, Bk 1)
Legend (Legend, Bk 1)
Author: Marie Lu
Genre: Teen & Young Adult
Book Type: Hardcover
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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.