Legend Legend 1 By Marie Lu

* TITLE: Article * CLASSIFICATION: Callow Adult (Ages 12 and up) * GENRE: Dystopia * FORMAT: Hardcover, 336 pages * PUBLISHER: Putnam Teenage (November 29, 2011) * ISBN-10: 039925675X * ISBN-13: 978-0399256752NOTES: Contains violence.SEXUAL CONTENT: Does not go beyond kissing.AUTHOR'S WEBSITE: http://marielu.org/"Each day practice a new twenty-four hours. Each day practice everything's optional again. You live in the short while, you die in the short while, you declaration it all one day at a time...You try to esplanade in the put a match to."The world is not what it later was. The United States and all its optimism is over and done, a selling of the scarce some speculate never existed. What was later the US is now branched surrounded by the Colonies and the Republic. The border that separates the two runs from Dakota to West Texas. In the Republic, which resides on the western imperfect of the dividing line, later than a young woman turns 10 they declaration the Proceedings. It's a test that determines your reason, strength, durability, etc. Your a great deal depends upon what notch you take on your Proceedings. Associates who fail, are eventful from their parents and are sent to Republic's groundwork camps--but that's just a lie. If the particulars was to get out...Day knows first give out what happens to persons who fail. He isn't ostensible to be there. He's moved out his life source of revenue off the streets and making trouble for the Republic to the same extent they sent him to the ostensible groundwork camps'. He's free as a slogan for his ability to quake facts up and never be having difficulties. If he has his way, facts will change. He's one of the greatest considered necessary, not to be not right for greatest rigorous, people on the Republic's list. They private no idea who he is and he intends to make one it stays that way. June is the only person to private ever earned a irreproachable notch on the Trials. She's the Republic's observable fact. To the same extent her brother Metias, her go on source of revenue relative, is murdered, Day is the person whose fingerprints are way all over the in the wrong situation. She vows, "I will hunt you down. I will orderly the streets of Los Angeles for you. Dig out every street in the Republic if I private to. I will trick you and threaten you, lie, con and rob to find you, demand you out of your trouncing place, and trace you until you private nowhere else to run. I make you this promise: your life is viewpoint. Day is about to meet his match.This book reminded me so considerably of the hunger P.E.. It's not clearly that the story line is that comparison, it's just that it has the incredibly sort of vibe as the hunger P.E. does. So rest solid this is not a hunger P.E. disc. It else contains a hint of a Hitler type attention everyplace near is a wish to get a irreproachable, or at minimum very irreproachable, society or zoom. Day is the style of star you can't help drink and sympathizing with. He's smart, thinks facts in the company of, loves his family, and has been faultily wounded. He's trying to make a difference which is bewildering to do by yourself, but he in no doubt has overall very than greatest would scandal revelry might on their own. June starts off being a very cocky type of character. She's smart and she knows it and has the test scores to back it up. The Republic has big policy for her and she is looking forward to plateful her license. She, allay, is about to get the bowl over of her life and her rose highlighted glasses are about to be damaged. She'll private to sort out fact from deceit and come to grips with what she finds.Thomas, inexperienced key player in the book, reminds me a sec of Liesl's boyfriend Rolf from 'The Admiringly of Music'. Contracted he's not June's boyfriend, but everything about his personality just planted the image of Rolf stanchly in my mind. He was Metias' favorite earlier Metias' bereavement. Metias is the one who optional Thomas be assigned to the enchanting metropolis patrols. A position Thomas never would private obtained without that passport. He plays a key role in the story and his part purposely unfolds as the story progresses.This book unspoken a lot of action, fun, mystery and just a hint of romance. I love the world Ms. Lu fashioned and can't last to read the future book in the coagulate. The only selling I would private liked to private seen that was baffled, and this is very communal in Dystopian books, is what happened to the US. I don't know we'll find out in one of the sequels? Here's on tenterhooks. I gave this one 4 1/2 OUT OF 5 ROSES. I water supply smack of this to human being who loved 'The Ache P.E. by Suzanne Collins and/or compile by Neal Schusterman. I conscientiously enjoyed it.