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But his motives may not be as malicious as they seem. From very different worlds, June and Day have no reason to cross paths—until the day June's brother, Metias, is murdered and Day becomes the prime suspect.

Caught in the ultimate game of cat and mouse, Day is in a race for his family's survival, while June seeks to avenge Metias's death. But in a shocking turn of events, the two uncover the truth of what has really brought them together, and the sinister lengths their country will go to keep its secrets. Hardcover , pages. Los Angeles, The Republic of America , To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up.

To ask other readers questions about Legend , please sign up. Will their be a movie? Is this book understandable for kids? Ella Mansfield This was the book that really got me into reading, and I am so glad I read it. I read this at age 12 and understood it perfectly enough to finish the …more This was the book that really got me into reading, and I am so glad I read it. I read this at age 12 and understood it perfectly enough to finish the whole series in a few days.

So I would say 10 or older seeing it is now is given as a book club in 6th grade at my school. See all questions about Legend…. Lists with This Book. I know, I know! View all comments. Tris Arun No shame in telling the truth: Aug 30, Dec 16, Dec 27, Kiki rated it it was amazing Shelves: A little while ago I was cleaning all the dust and papers and shit out from under my bed, and I found a plastic box full of last year's Christmas presents and decs.

You all know how it is. You start off tidying up but then you find something you forgot you had like a Katie Morag book or a recorder and you spend like a half an hour just fucking around with it and by the time you get back down to business, you can't be bothered cleaning any more and it all gets kicked right back under the bed beca A little while ago I was cleaning all the dust and papers and shit out from under my bed, and I found a plastic box full of last year's Christmas presents and decs.

You start off tidying up but then you find something you forgot you had like a Katie Morag book or a recorder and you spend like a half an hour just fucking around with it and by the time you get back down to business, you can't be bothered cleaning any more and it all gets kicked right back under the bed because fuck it - no one's going to look under there. Who cares if it's tidy or not? So I was cleaning up and I found this chocolate Santa still in his foil clothing. I sniffed it to see if it was foosty because let's face it, he'd been languishing in that box all year.

But he smelled alright, so I held on to him and started to look through the other stuff. I kind of needed my hands then, so as I was standing over the box, I tucked him between my knees just to avoid placing him on the floor because it's covered in dog hair. I pressed him too hard and crushed one of his arms. When I got there, I realized it was too late and decided just to eat him instead of faffing around with the tin foil.

So I start to peel off the foil - and what the fuck did I find? I found out that underneath his nice, shiny PC clothing, he was in fact a chocolate Pope.

Pope's hat, robes, all the bells and whistles. I'm not fucking kidding you. He was a POPE. I screamed and stamped my feet on the floor. Consumerist brainwashing, I declared! Santa is a neutral entity accessible to all, like Switzerland or Dairy Queen! The Pope is not! I was going to eat him just to spite all that, but he didn't taste good. He tasted a year old.

He tasted like deceit. You're probably wondering what the hell this has to do with Legend. Well, I'll tell you! This book was like buying a foil Pope, and then opening it up to find a chocolate Santa. Who isn't a Santa at all, but just a casing in which three tickets to Rome are hidden along with a fat lump of gold and an Indigo gift card! I wasn't expecting much from this book.

Legend (Legend, #1) by Marie Lu

I've read my fair share of shitty YA dystopians. In fact, I've given up on my fair share of shitty YA dystopias. This book made the little crying feminist inside me sob with joy while the little crying writer inside me burned with jealousy that someone else could write something so fabulous!

I can't really be bothered to keep on typing, but I'll tell you this: The characters are absolutely incredible, the plot is a freaking rollercoaster ride of excitement and doom, and the writing! Marie Lu, you are fucking amazing. Maybe it's just personal preference, but the writing in Legend is just perfect.

It's straight-talking, no fluffy crap but just enough emotion to make me care. And it's present tense! Yeah, a shit ton of people really hate present tense, but I love it. Past tense is decent, nothing really wrong with it, but it's more poetic; doesn't have the same immediacy required for a fast-paced action-punch novel like this one. Which is to say: And this book got it right. And it made my post-New Year weekus horribilis a hell of a lot better.

I've read a lot of reviews for this book, and I'm struck by something. Am I the only person who noticed the Tiananmen Square reference in this book? I was waiting to see if anybody else would comment on it, but nobody has.

Is it just that nobody noticed it, or does nobody know what I'm talking about? Back by popular demand! This BT really has nothing to do with anything, but it's too awesome not to share. View all 80 comments. Aug 27, Nick rated it it was amazing Shelves: Each day means everything's possible again. You live in the moment, you die in the moment, you take it all one day at a time. He doesn't blush, and his eyes don't dart away. Instead I find myself staring into a pair of oceans - one perfect, the other blemished by that tiny ripple.

But never in his tone of voice. Of all the things he's said, I don't know why this catches me off guard. But it startles me so much that without thinking I blurt out, "I could say the same about you. That's much more powerful than rebelling outside the system. June June was great. Day Day was also a great character. Become someone sucessful, or even famous. I'm famous all right, but I don't think it's what she had in mind. View all 69 comments. I'm such a sucker for dystopians.

I love the energy, the rush I get from them. When I got my copy of Legend I was thrilled. Now I know I had a good reason to be. This is one of the good ones. A dystopian well worth reading! We've got two narrators: Day has escaped death before, and he's only trying to survive while taking care of his family, especially his sick brother. June got a perfect score on her Trial and I'm such a sucker for dystopians.

June got a perfect score on her Trial and she's trying to get revenge for her brother's death. Their paths cross and the story takes hold in the most unprecedented way. I truly enjoyed both of these narrators equally - which rarely happens. They both have great characteristics that make each POV really interesting and addicting. I couldn't wait to find out how their situations would play out.

We go through the story on both sides, night and day, and we're persuaded to root for each of them the all the same. It was original and well thought out. The reason for the present peril and what happened to the world wasn't explained as much as I would have liked.

I hope the next installments discloses more details. We did get enough to still make sense of it and enjoy the story, though.

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It was fast paced, which is always welcome in this type of book. There were no slow or boring parts, and it also didn't go in the direction I imagined it would. Which is great because it took me off guard and kept me really glued to the story. This is another one not to miss, folks! For more of my reviews, check my blog at Xpresso Reads. View all 32 comments. Jul 16, Arlene rated it it was amazing Recommends it for: Recommended to Arlene by: Are you kidding me!?!? Okay let me just tell you now, this review is going to be an absolute, incoherent gush-fest.

Marie Lu has created a book where the voices are powerful, the narrative is commanding, and the plot is explosive… all the way to the absolute end.

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Legend has shot up to my top spot in highly addictive series. This book was nothing short of riveting making it worthy of applause, standing ovations and literary accolades. Plagues are diminishing the population; and two sides of what was once one country are fighting each other using biological warfare, lies and anything and everything in their arsenal for land and power.

This story is told in alternating POVs between Day Daniel Altan Wing who is a criminal on the run from the Republic authorities, and June Iparis a recent graduate of the Republic academy who is placed on a mission to hunt down Day. When these two characters collide, secrets and conspiracies force them to take a closer look around them to find their true enemy and an all out manhunt explodes. So, to read how the state has changed was pretty captivating. Huge thanks to Flannery from thereadventurer for letting me read her ARC. View all 50 comments. Jun 24, Wendy Darling rated it liked it Shelves: I like an action-packed adventure, don't you?

Legend is a lot of fun to read, and follows two teens who are born into opposite sides of a war in a futuristic Los Angeles in the Republic of America. But when her brother is senselessly murdered, she embarks upon a mission to find his killer--and discovers that all signs point towards Day, a notorious criminal who is already wanted by the Republic.

Th I like an action-packed adventure, don't you? This is a cocktail of utopian YA, Romeo and Juliet , and various wronged imprisonment stories all blended together with liberal dashes of adventure and intrigue. I liked both June and Day, and I was eager to learn more about the big mystery behind why the government is so interested in Day's brother. The best thing about Legend , however, is the terrific action sequences that the author writes into the story: As with so many of these books that are stretched out to accommodate sequels, there really aren't enough answers unearthed in this first installment, so presumably we'll have to wait until book two to find out the details of government's involvement in biological experimentation.

What prevents this from being a truly excellent book, however, is that the book overall feels very slight. At pages, it is surprisingly short and there isn't a great deal of complexity in the characters, the world-building, or the plot. It's also extremely predictable. While the story is certainly well-written, most readers will be able to anticipate pretty much every plot development and thought that crosses the characters' minds Still, I liked this book and I think it's among the better dystopian YA books that have been released lately. It's definitely an entertaining read and I'm interested in seeing where the story goes next.

I do wish, however, that it contained more depth and more originality and more This review also appears in The Midnight Garden. View all 58 comments. Jan 27, karen rated it liked it Shelves: View all 33 comments. And Legend was all right, pretty good when compared to some of the crap I've read recently, it just wasn't anything particularly spectacular either. That being said, I'm still probably going to read the sequel because I seem to have come down with that annoying disease known as "caringaboutthecharactersitis". It stood out amongst other members of the overcrowded dystopian genre, but that was mostly because a lot of the others are so atrociously bad, rather than this being overly mind-blowing.

It was fun, though, easy to read, quite entertaining, I don't have any regrets about reading it. The main characters are far less annoying than some I've had the displeasure of encountering in this genre. They're not that original or inspiring but they're the kind of carbon copies I don't mind seeing so much.

She is self-reliant and can kick ass without the sexy love interest's assistance. He's kind, considerate and brave. The chemistry between them never seems forced, despite it being yet another "they felt drawn to one another" scenario. Somehow it doesn't matter that much here. The world building is the weakest part of the novel, something that seems to apply to most new releases in the dystopian genre.

A fact which is strange when surely the whole point of a "dystopia" is the world the characters interact in. But whatever, I will begin to sound like a broken record. It does get better towards the end of Legend with clues being introduced about the time before the Republic existed. This gives me hope that Marie Lu is simply withholding her world building to prolong the reader's interest, but I just hope that I'm not left hanging on this matter at the end of the second book too.

Another thing I didn't like - because I couldn't believe in it - was all the huge leaping to conveniently accurate conclusions. The protagonists would look at an unbelievably small piece of evidence and manage to solve an entire mystery out of it. I wasn't convinced, I don't care how smart you are, you would not have gone from A to B like that. Though this isn't going to make it onto any of my "favourites" lists, I'd recommend this book to a lot of people. Those who keep loving trashy dystopias with a forbidden romance story, those who liked any of those books I listed in the second paragraph.

Those who look for light entertainment rather than deep meaning or fantastic writing in their books. I conclude that Legend is not that bad, it'll probably be a hit with anyone who isn't getting tired of reading poorly constructed dystopia after poorly constructed dystopia. This review is not very positive, but the books get better and better!

View all 8 comments. Mar 28, Rachel E. Carter rated it really liked it Shelves: What I truly enjoyed: And it fits the militaristic atmosphere perfectly. I'm not usually a fan of child side characters and tend to find them a burden, but this one wormed her way into my heart with her interactions with Day. Try as I might, this trope contributed to minus one star. That was a bit too far-fetched for me to ever get over it. Now let me clarify: I'm a big believer in tension -like for me that is what makes a romance so great in the YA books I read- and when there isn't a lot I just don't become as invested in the love story.

Still, I plan on reading this whole series because this was a great debut. Mary Lu has talent and I would like to see where it goes. Did I like this more than Young Elites? Plot-wise yes, it was a lot faster and while YE had better action this one kept me bored less of the time ; romance-wise, no, Enzo is my bae. View all 17 comments. Okay, hypothetical scenario time. No one listens to you! Please, just roll with my craziness. How, in my mind at least, does it fare in the arena?

Without a doubt, at Okay, hypothetical scenario time. Without a doubt, at the siren Legend comes sprinting off the plate at full speed and confidence. However, lurking menacingly in the shadows are the Chaos Walking trilogy and Shipbreaker. These books are comparatively seasoned, superior fighters, and use stealth to their advantage.

And ultimately, Legend is no match for the facepunch of awesome that is Monsters of Men. To start with, the good: Legend is a fast-paced, action-based novel that makes for quick, immersive reading. The main characters themselves, teens Day and June, have good on-page chemistry and their dynamic is interesting, serving to complement, rather than hijack the plot. Likewise, I enjoyed many of the secondary characters Metias, Tessa, Kaede. So far, so good.

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And now, the not so much: In fact, this was probably my largest problem with Legend — the ideas are good, the concepts interesting — but I wanted more. This is a slim book that barely scratches the surface of the world Lu is presenting. The climax of the story requires a fair amount of suspension of belief, if not throwing it out the window altogether. While the events are easy to get caught up in, they are a little too convenient to be credible. At the end of the day, Legend is an entertaining book.

View all 46 comments. I've been putting this one off forever because I thought I was pretty much over dystopian YA.

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But friends won't stop raving about this trilogy still and The story has the typical dystopian society with an evil dictator, military control, and gifted teens who get sorted in life by a test. The girl discovers the side she's working for has a hidden agenda and that the rebels might actually be the ones to help But it was so well done that it still felt completely unique! I'm super glad I gave this one a chance because the sequels are set up to be amazinggggg. View all 16 comments. This book was a re-read for me so that I could finally finish out the trilogy.

I pretty much feel the same way I did back in I enjoyed the book and the characters. I love Day so much and I love Tess and June. I love that even though Day and June were enemies at first because of what June thought happened to her brother, they came together and found out the truth. It seems like there are some jerks running around lying. BUT, they always are right? The Republic and The Colonies are at war, t This book was a re-read for me so that I could finally finish out the trilogy.

The Republic and The Colonies are at war, they are always at war. Can't anyone just get along? And there is a plague that is killing people. Supposedly they are giving people a cure and if you make it you do and if you don't you don't. June and Day find out some revelations behind that too and ewwww. Anyway, I really hope to love the next two books!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I better love the next two books because I'm losing the battle of trilogies lately. I didn't think I would like it but I was so wrong. The characters of June, Day and Tess were awesome! I'm going to try to write this without any spoilers!

So, there are the rich people and the poor people and there is a plague going around, but it seems to only be in the poor parts of town. Day is a sort of Robin Hood, steal from the rich and give to the poor. He's awesome and I love him! He took Tess on as a sort of sister when he found her some time ago all alone on the streets. He's a really good guy.

When he finds out his families house is marked for the plague he feels he has to break into the hospital and steal the cure. They only let the rich people in, the jerks. He is almost caught and in his escape he injures a soldier named Metia in the shoulder. This turns out to be the brother of June, who is automatically brought in as a soldier of sorts to hunt down and bring Day to justice.

They end up meeting in a weird way and when she finds out he is Day, she has him caught. So, all of these things happen that are not what they seem forcing Day and June to come together as a team. This does not bother them at all as they have fallen for each other. It is a very good storyline with some messed up people doing some messed up things, but isn't that always the cause with people in government: I look forward to the rest of the trilogy!

View all 19 comments. Marie just announced it - you can see it here! I'm honestly not the biggest fan of dystopian as a genre, but oh my, Marie Lu nailed the characters. My biggest complaint though is that they definitely act way older than I'm not sure why Marie Lu didn't just make them 17 or which would be much more believable. Sooo I pretty much just changed their ages in my head and I recommend everyone else do the same. I know they age a big during the series but regardless, that age range just doesn't fit. So all in all, don't go into this expecting some super elaborate world or anything, but it doesn't need it.

The story is super fun, and as long as you find yourself connecting to Day and June- you'll definitely enjoy the series just based on them and their interaction. View all 24 comments. Aug 16, Mizuki rated it it was ok Shelves: I read Legend because I'd heard good things about it, but after reading half of this book, I found I'm not happy with the story, not at all. Do I want to see a female author writing a worthy bestseller? Do I want to see an Asian getting a head start with her first novel? Still I can't pretend Legend is a good book, I just can't. The following gif shows my feeling toward this book: Okay, I can handle teenagers being stupid and clueless about how the world works, but I can't handle 15 years old teenagers who are supposed to be geniuses to act like a pair of hopeless idiots for an entire book.

I am not a huge fan of dystopian novels but I especially dislike authors coming up with dystopian worlds which make no sense at all with governments doing evil things and killing off children for no good reason other than to show off how evil and fucked up said government is. After finished reading the whole story, I read from the Acknowledgement at the back of the book that the author, Marie Lu started writing the story of Legend when she was 14 years old.

Ah, now I can understand why as a whole this book feels so very damn juvenile even for a Young Adult novel. I am so done with all this eye-rolling stupidity, I am not going to read any more book by Marie Lu. Should I make a list to note down all the problems we have to face when encountering this piece of works?

At the ripe old age of 15, this boy has survived alone on the streets for five long years and he is the most wanted criminal in the country. Oh, so in this futuristic America, you become the most wanted criminal not by being a terrorist, a bank robber with firearm, a hacker or a serial killer, but by stealing, pushing pranks at the government and 'making them look bad'.

Give me a break. And I don't believe for a second that Day can be a super smart tough kid who had endured the hardship of surviving on the mean streets for five long years, his actions and choices have never showed me enough wit and wisdom for him to survive that long. Plus he never mentions anything about going hungry, having to beg for food and money, being beat up or running into street gang in his past experience, how realistic. A 15 years old star student of the military and also the one and only teen in the entire country to get a perfect score at her Trail when she was 10 years old.

Not only June is supposed to be super smart, she also has as much emotion as a robot, who can stay perfectly calm and showing barely any grief when she was informed, out of the blue, her older brother is dead and his corpse is on display right in front of her. Okay, it's nice to have a YA heroine who doesn't cry and moan at the slightest of things, but how can a girl act so emotionless at the wake of her brother's death? And she is also cool when seeing a spy gets tortured half to death? Not to mention, these two super smart teenagers fail to see through the villains' wicked plan when I can see it coming from a mile away.

I only know the country is at war with another enemy country and every kid has to go through a Trail when they reach 10 years old and those who fail the Trail would be secretly sentenced to death; plus the existence of the good-old United States is hidden by the evil government, it's mentioned that there were a series of natural disasters in the past, these are more or less all the world building I've ever gotten.

Curious why the evil government would waste all those healthy-but-not-smart-enough kids by NOT training them up to be soldiers or labors when said government is at war with another nation, which means they would have needed all the manpower they can get their hands on instead of killing healthy and able 10 years old. Not to mention, in this futuristic world, police can randomly beat children up for disobedience and they can take money and food from the poor people; but why would the citizens allow it? How does the government justify such things? How does said government remain in power when they are treating the poor people like dirt?

Ah yes, in this futuristic world, they can't afford to put CCTVs around hospitals and police stations, but somehow they manage to have the freaking Internet. The point is, when Day breaks into a hospital, there is no CCTV to record his break-in, but by the end of the story, all of a sudden there are CCTVs around for the bad guys to check upon? Why are CCTVs suddenly there? Just because the author said so? Not only that, after the soldiers shot an plague-infected woman, they never bother to pick up the body, they just leave the corpse by the doorstep, and no one cares about an infected corpse being left out in the open neither.

Are these people for real? Are they Too Stupid To Live or something? I am shocked that none of them has ever thought about burning the infected woman's body, or even burning the entire house down! We are told Day and June are smart but their actions and choices have always showed me otherwise, we are told Day is supposed to be a cult hero among the poor citizens but the author never bothers to show me any affection toward Day from any of the citizen I had encountered in the book, no one seems to adore Day aside from Tess and Day's own family.

I am told there's a war going on but I see no evidence of how the war may affect the daily life of the general public. I feel like the author is taking us all for fools. To me, Legend is one of the perfect examples of why authors should not be allowed to publish a dystopian novel before they pass some tests on science, sociology, psychology and history. Review for book 2: View all 84 comments. Legend by Marie Lu Holyyyyy, omg, where do i start..

This book was absolutely incredible! From the time i read the first page, i knew it was going to be great, but never as amazing as it truly was. From page 1 to page , i was completely enthralled and could not get enough of it! Marie Lu is an incredible writer, I absolutely lovedddd the two perspective writing!

The characters were incredible, the world was so incredibly vivid that i literally feel like i just watched a movie and didn't read a bo Legend by Marie Lu Holyyyyy, omg, where do i start.. The characters were incredible, the world was so incredibly vivid that i literally feel like i just watched a movie and didn't read a book, even though i got all of the emotional aspects as well. This book just reminds me of christmas and cooking for christmas, because thats what I was doing when I rarely wasn't reading this book. Please, do yourself a favour and go read this book.

It is now one of my all time favourites, and I cannot wait to continue the series!!: View all 9 comments. Nov 24, Ninoska Goris rated it it was amazing Shelves: Sin embargo, habitan en mundos opuestos: June and Day, two citizens of the Republic, are the same age and live in the same city. However, they live in opposite worlds: In January , MTV reported that Jonathan Levine , though initially attached as director, had dropped out of the film. Whoever gets that is going to be excited because the world-building for that is a blast. That same month, it was reported that Andrew Barrer and Gabe Ferrari have completed the script.

In July , it was announced that the film and television rights have been acquired by BCDF Pictures with Joseph Muszynski hired to write the script. The adaptations are written by Leigh Dragoon and illustrated by Caravan Studio. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Putnam's Sons , Penguin Books Publication date. Library of Congress lccn. Retrieved November 12, Retrieved 27 September Archived from the original on 1 January A taut, dystopian 'Legend ' ".

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