Review: Legend - Marie Lu

Hallelujah!! Finally a book that I liked! AND a series that I will be continuing! I feel like I have read endless amounts of first books of series and not liked them enough to continue the series. But this one I liked so much that I have even bought the entire series! (I got “Legend” from the library). 

Legend is about two young people, a boy and a girl, who live in a dystopian world. This world is pretty much California set in the future. We don’t really find out exactly what happened to the world to make it so bleak. But it is run by a dictator and his army who terrorize the people. June, the girl, is a soldier in the army, a wonder child, while Day, the boy, is the most wanted criminal. It is pretty easy to figure out the basic story line, but still it had me riveted. 

As for the characters I have seen some complain that June and Day are pretty much the same person. And I guess they are, but I think that is quite interesting, because they grew up in different circumstances under this regime, when they should have had the same opportunities based on their abilities. The fact that they didn’t speaks to the regime’s fear of individuals, and I think that is a valid point. As for their personalities perhaps they could have been a bit more developed, but I hope that will happen in the next books. 

As for the plot I thought it was fun and riveting, although a little transparent. It was also quite quickly developed, I would have liked a little more detail about the world and such. But it is a pretty short book, so I guess it had to move along rather quickly. 

I gave this book 3,5 stars out of 5 on Goodreads.