Review: Prodigy - Marie Lu

This is the second book in the Legend series, and while I really enjoyed the first book, it has taken me a while to get around to reading this one. 

I really liked this book. There was action, but perhaps not so much character development, as one could wish. And while I enjoyed it, I sometimes found myself struggling to stay focused on the story. I’m not exactly sure why, although I do think it has something to do with the plot. This book is about the assassination attempt of the leader of the government and that involved a whole lot of planning, which meant that the action was pretty slow until the end of the book. 

As for the characters I feel like there wasn’t a whole lot of development of Day and June. Tess, and to some degree Anden, were pretty much the only ones we got to know better, and Tess really annoyed me. She was so mean to Day, almost demanding that he kick June to the curb and love her instead, pressuring him by reminding him of all the bad things that had happened to him. I really felt like she was bullying him to try and make him like her. 

I felt like the first part of this book was the standard “second book of the series”, just taking up space until we get to the third book, when things wrap up. But then in the last part of the book most things wrapped up pretty nicely and I don’t really know what the third book will be about. There are a few things that need closure, but nothing that couldn't have happened in this book, so I am just hoping there will actually be some plot in the third book, and it won’t be one of those “we could have made two books, but we’ll just string it out reeeeaaaaal hard and make three”. So I am keeping my fingers crossed. 

As I said I really liked the first book, Legend, but I think I will hold off on judging the series until I’ve read the last book, as this one left me completely undecided. I gave it 3 stars out of 5 on Goodreads.