Marie Luu's Beautiful Creatures
Legend, written by Marie Lu, is a dystopian sci-fi novel for young adults. It is the first book in an epic trilogy that is continued in Prodigy and Champion. Based on a retelling of Les Miserables, Legend is “impossible to put down and even harder to forget” (Kami Garcia, author of Beautiful Creatures).
Set in a futuristic Los Angeles, Legend is told from the perspective of two main characters from contrasting backgrounds, June and Day. In this novel, the United States of America no longer exists, but has been replaced by two warring nations, the Republic and the Colonies.
A trial is hosted each year in the Republic to determine who joins the army in fighting the Colonies. June Iparis, born into an elite family and “groomed for success …show more content…
However everything is not what it seems. Day insists that he did not kill June’s brother, and after taking a closer look at the photos of Metias’s corpse, June realises that there were actually two knife wounds – one in the shoulder where Day claimed to have hit him, and another in his chest. Who, then, could have murdered Metias? And what other ulterior motives could they have?
My favourite part of the book is when June hacks into the Republic’s database and finds Day’s real Trial scores, also a perfect 1500/1500. This is when she realises for sure that something is off with the Republican government. It throws a really big wrench in the whole plot and makes it all the more exciting to read.
The author of Legend, Marie Lu, was born in Wuxi, China in 1984. She had moved to the United States by the age of 5 with her family and currently lives in Los Angeles, California. The inspiration for Legend came one afternoon while Marie was watching Les Miserables, and wondered how the relationship between a notorious criminal and a famous detective might be portrayed in a more modern setting.
I highly recommend this book to young adult readers, as it combines some very interesting themes and ideas to create an absolutely amazing dystopian novel, full of exciting plot twists and
Set in a futuristic Los Angeles, Legend is told from the perspective of two main characters from contrasting backgrounds, June and Day. In this novel, the United States of America no longer exists, but has been replaced by two warring nations, the Republic and the Colonies.
A trial is hosted each year in the Republic to determine who joins the army in fighting the Colonies. June Iparis, born into an elite family and “groomed for success …show more content…
However everything is not what it seems. Day insists that he did not kill June’s brother, and after taking a closer look at the photos of Metias’s corpse, June realises that there were actually two knife wounds – one in the shoulder where Day claimed to have hit him, and another in his chest. Who, then, could have murdered Metias? And what other ulterior motives could they have?
My favourite part of the book is when June hacks into the Republic’s database and finds Day’s real Trial scores, also a perfect 1500/1500. This is when she realises for sure that something is off with the Republican government. It throws a really big wrench in the whole plot and makes it all the more exciting to read.
The author of Legend, Marie Lu, was born in Wuxi, China in 1984. She had moved to the United States by the age of 5 with her family and currently lives in Los Angeles, California. The inspiration for Legend came one afternoon while Marie was watching Les Miserables, and wondered how the relationship between a notorious criminal and a famous detective might be portrayed in a more modern setting.
I highly recommend this book to young adult readers, as it combines some very interesting themes and ideas to create an absolutely amazing dystopian novel, full of exciting plot twists and