June Iparis
Agent, Los Angeles City Patrol,
15, Female, 5 FT 4 IN.
350,000 Republic notes reward.
If seen, report immediately to your local official.
That's what the republic wants their people to think. That I'm missing. What they don't say is they want me dead. I helped Day, the country's most notorious criminal, escape his execution, aided the rebel patriots in a staged uprising and turned my back on the republic.
But I won't turn my back on Day...
I'll be the first to admit that I wasn't as obsessed with Marie Lu's first dystopian novel Legend as other bloggers seemed to be. While I thought there was plenty of good stuff in there, I was totally anti a June and Day romance. Why couldn't they just admire each others abilities and similarities and then build up to the smoocholas in either the second or third book in the trilogy?
However, the coupling that I hated in the first book become a strength in Prodigy. Lu provided of a sense of who these characters are, and consistently showed me why I should be rooting for a Day/June relationship. Prodigy has so much to love (including the fact that Lu isn't afraid to kill off her characters, as I like it when peril actually means peril) and I couldn't put the book down; a complete contrast to my experience of when I was reading Legend.
With Prodigy, Lu successfully expanded her damaged world, that has been ravaged by the effects of global warming, beyond the Republic. I don't want to be too spoilery, but the contrast between the Republic and the Colonies is rather interesting. I hope that the dichotomy between the two is explored further in the next book.
My one criticism is that I guessed some of the plot twists early on. This explains why, when Day and June finally figured that there were shenanigans taking place, I was all Dennis Duffy from 30 Rock, actually shouting, "FINALLY DUMMIES!"
So how does the Legend series progress? And how does Lu even begin to wrap up her trilogy in a satisfying way? We'll have to wait until next year when Champion is released. Is it wrong that I am hoping for a they all die at the end scenario?
I'll be the first to admit that I wasn't as obsessed with Marie Lu's first dystopian novel Legend as other bloggers seemed to be. While I thought there was plenty of good stuff in there, I was totally anti a June and Day romance. Why couldn't they just admire each others abilities and similarities and then build up to the smoocholas in either the second or third book in the trilogy?
However, the coupling that I hated in the first book become a strength in Prodigy. Lu provided of a sense of who these characters are, and consistently showed me why I should be rooting for a Day/June relationship. Prodigy has so much to love (including the fact that Lu isn't afraid to kill off her characters, as I like it when peril actually means peril) and I couldn't put the book down; a complete contrast to my experience of when I was reading Legend.
With Prodigy, Lu successfully expanded her damaged world, that has been ravaged by the effects of global warming, beyond the Republic. I don't want to be too spoilery, but the contrast between the Republic and the Colonies is rather interesting. I hope that the dichotomy between the two is explored further in the next book.
My one criticism is that I guessed some of the plot twists early on. This explains why, when Day and June finally figured that there were shenanigans taking place, I was all Dennis Duffy from 30 Rock, actually shouting, "FINALLY DUMMIES!"
So how does the Legend series progress? And how does Lu even begin to wrap up her trilogy in a satisfying way? We'll have to wait until next year when Champion is released. Is it wrong that I am hoping for a they all die at the end scenario?
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