Legend: Four Week Update

So many plot twists were revealed in Legend during this week of reading. Traitors surface and some characters meet a bitter end.  Now it is my job to explain all of what happened in this great novel, to you.

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TAKE COVER! SPOILERS INBOUND!
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Day and The Girl, who is June, are a great team together. Working on the streets, the two raise almost enough money to buy Eden's plague medicine. Day and June start to become really close and eventually fall in love after a very sensual kissing. The Day falls asleep very soon, but before June does, she notices Day is grabbing at something around his neck that isn't there. She quickly realizes it must be a pendant, therefore she believes she has finally found Day.

Day wakes up in the middle of the night and goes to see his family. June also wakes up and follows him without Day knowing.  She hides away on a three story building. June gets the exact location of Day's family's house. Street and specifics. She clicks on her mike, tells Commander Jameson everything, and will get a small army sent to his house next morning.

Hearing special military vehicles in the morning, Day sprints to his house. He breaks in through the front door, his family stunned. His mother doesn't believe he is still alive. He thought he was dead after he failed his Trial. Doing his best to hide his family, Day thinks of other solutions to get them to safety. The military arrives seconds later; his family is found within a matter of minutes. He sees The Girl, standing among the militants and giving orders. Being ordered by The Girl to come out of hiding, Day rebels and starts firing bullets from his slingshot. When he still doesn't emerge, Commander Jameson shoots Day's mother. Day lashes out in fury, killing or injuring guards left and right. He is finally shot, handcuffed, gagged, bound, and escorted to a truck. The most wanted criminal is finally arrested.

 This book uses a "W" plot line. Things looked grim for Day when he almost got arrested. Then he was on the climb with June in the city. Now being arrested, the plot falls. I will finish this book by next week. Until then, look forward to the epic conclusion of Legend.

Legend: Three Week Update

New information, plot twists and suspense have been revealed in the latest chapters in Legend. Day meets a new "friend" and finally understands what the odd markings on his family's door means. In the meantime, June is doing more recon in the city to track down Day. Everything is looking hopeless until one fateful day.

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SPOILER ALERT!!!

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Day is trying to find ways to make money and buy plague cures, without having to rob anything. He is betting on a fight with Tess, his partner for the last few years. Tess is shoved into the ring; now she must fight for her life. June appears and fills in for Tess in the fight. She wins, but recieves a knife wound in the process. Day and Tess grab June and take her back to their place. The two enemies have met and they don't even know it! Tess bandages June, while Day heads off to his family.

Day finds his family's house, still marked by the strange X with a stripe down the middle. He had know idea what it meant until today. He heard that a new, stronger strain had been identified in another sector. He believed that his brother, Eden, had picked it up. On his way back to his place, he found a large, metal box in the ground. It had a Republic flag and a number on it. Not sure what it was, he took a mental note of the location.

The information we have just learned leads us to some foreshadowing. Eden could have a super strain of the plague. June may finally capture Day. The metal box may be more important later on in the book. I'll let you know what happens later on. Thanks for reading!

Legend: Two Week Update

 I have thoroughly enjoyed reading Legend  thus far.  The characters and the plot are starting to develop, and the action is picking up steam. Marie Lu's craft really gives more detail and liveliness to each individual scene, as if she was the director and special effects artist. I will now give my recall of the last few chapters.

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Day and June's two worlds have collided. Day was stealing plague medicine from a hospital to cure his family. When attempting to escape, he confronts June's brother, Metias, and ends up killing him. Now Day is being hunted down by June, who is thirsty for revenge.

June has been promoted to a team dedicated to finding Day, the Republic's most wanted criminal. Using all of her knowledge and skill acquired from military training, she sets up a trap to get some information out of  Day. Disguised as a black market dealer, she tells Day that she has plague medicine. He doesn't fall for the bait and instead contacts her over radio. But June still can figure out what sector of the Republic he is from, the state he was born in and his location just based off how Day is talking. The line is cut and the hunt begins for the most wanted criminal of the Republic.

These couple of chapters really got me excited for the book. The suspense and cleverness inspires me too. Ill post next Friday and give you another update on this amazing book.

Legend: First Impressions

A few days ago, I started reading Legend by Marie Lu. Only 60 pages in, and I am already captivated by what this story has to offer. Various aspects of this novel set it apart from the rest. From the setting to the structure, I'll listing off my first impressions. 

Setting: Legend is similar to The Hunger Games and Divergent in the person vs. society part, but otherwise this a completely reimagined book. Legend begins in the United States of America. Apparently the Republic has formed from it , and they are fighting the Colonies, which is the rest of the USA. And while all of this is going on, a plague is running rampant throughout the grim, futuristic America.

Structure: Legend is a dual perspective book. We get to read from the the first person point of view of two characters. They are Day and June, one the most wanted criminal, the other The Republic's prodigy. Since there are two perspectives, there are two sides to each argument and that gives us all the information.

I can't wait to see what happens next in this book. Ill keep you guys updated too!