Book 1 - havo 4

Legend

Marie Lu

First edition.

295 pages.

This is a book about war, love and family.

You read the book from 2 main characters, Danial “Day” Altan Wing and June Iparis. The story takes place in ‘The replubic of America’ in the year 2054.

Day is looking at his old house, a plague patrol is coming by, they paint a weird x on his door, which means one or his whole family is infected with the plague. He does a raid on the hospital in which he kills the brother of June Iparis, Metias Iparis by throwing a knife at him. He gets away and the military city patrols put June on the task to trace day and bring him to justice. When she is able to trace day to his family, the military does a raid on his families home. During this raid he tries to protect his family, tho Commander Jameson, the commander of the city patrols, orders Thomas Alexander Bryant to kill Day’s mother. Because of this move they are able to catch day after a fight. During the next time June starts to find out more and more about the republic as Day keeps holding on that he didn’t kill Metias, he threw the knife in his shoulder.

 

Day has light blond hair with baby blue eyes and an imperfection in one of his eyes, a limp to his left leg he is describes as extremely agile.

June has long dark brown hair with brown eyes with golden flecks in them.

 

I honestly thought the book was really good and loved it. It has an amazing plot and a lot of details in it. The English used in it is also with a lot of hard words which makes it a bit of a challenge to read. After I read this book I ordered the whole trilogy as it ends with a cliff hanger and I wanted to read further. The different views of June and Day are also really good, you get both sides and choose yours. Again, I loved it and would recommend it to everyone.