Legend

By Marie Lu

305 Pages

Published by Putnam Juvenile

★★

By Em

I though I'd like this book. Honestly I did. I'd heard really good stuff about it, and it intrigued me. But nope, I did not enjoy this at all. I suppose it was an OK story, but OK is not my speed. I need amazing, spectacular, and my favorite word in the whole English vocabulary, awesome! Legend didn't fit those categories.


Where to start... Well, I love to discuss characters, so let's start there. June and Day. Nice characters and all, but their just to... to... perfect! !SPOILER ALERT! Content ahead has spoilers, proceed with caution. Both characters are equally matched in just about everything. Their like the same person! I swear, I was just waiting for them to suddenly become long-lost twins. Both received a perfect score on the Trial, and they are the only two to ever do it. Coincidence? Yeah, not really. It just seemed to... planned out.


And Day... oh Day. He was just too good. I mean, no one seemed to really be an obstacle for him until the very end of the book. Now yes, if you go back and look at my The False Prince review, I did say that I enjoyed when characters were able to outsmart everyone. And trust me, I do. But I also enjoy realism. The fact that this kid living on the streets is able to beat every well trained military person he runs across is just so... fake. It's just fake. I can't put it anyway else. Maybe some older guy who's had a lot of experience. Maybe. You know, someone like Indiana Jones. I don't think he had training to go treasure hunting. He's a professor at a university for crying out loud! Okay, off topic, on with the review. 


The setting was... nice. but after reading futuristic Void, it was a touch of a letdown. Was I expecting flying cars, no. Skyscrapers that are literally "scraping the sky". No. But for some reason, the way she described it, I was getting total 1800 run down towns all surrounding this massive shopping center. Do not ask me why, because I don't know why either. But that was the image I got in my head for some reason, so when picturing this book, it was really, really, weird.....


This review is short, yes I know. But I'm having a hard time expressing my distaste for this book. Clearly there will be a sequel, which I shan't read, because the villain didn't die and/or go to jail. Who ends a story like that? Okay, yes, I would, but then I would write a sequel, so one is coming. And with that, I am just going to leave this book with a large amount of hatred and never go back. Let's put this one way. I didn't like it. No more explanation needed. I'm sorry if this review is a tad of a let down, but I can't put things any other way... I. Did. Not. Like. It.