The prologue itself? Quick, useful, meaningful. Legendborn is an emotional, epic powerhouse of a story that starts with a slow and awkward beginning.Ī few pages past the prologue, and I was worried I’d need to write a critical review of Legendborn I didn’t want to write. ( 2020 Retellings Reading Challenge #15-Debut Author) ( 20 LGBTQ Books in 2020 #23-Nonbinary Rep) ( 2020 Book Bingo Reading Challenge #21-A book written by a woman of colour) ( 2020 POPSUGAR Reading Challenge #32-A book by a woman of colour) (Thank you to NetGalley and Simon Pulse for providing an eARC in exchange for an honest review!)

– Information / world-building happens in awkward order – Painfully awkward, amateur set-up (which takes FOREVER) – Deonn convinces me to love Selwyn, who I am genetically programmed to loath – Not only tackles hard topics like slavery and grief, but weaves them into the core of the story – Readable writing, beautiful descriptions – Bree is a compelling, likeable and sympathetic main character Genre-typical descriptions of violence, blood and gore. (All condemned in the narrative, of course.) Death of a parent. Multiple levels of racism, including systematic racism, profiling, tokenism, one instance of slurs, and the depiction of chattel slavery.

If Bree has any hope of saving herself and the people she loves, she must learn to control her powers from the ancestors who wielded them first - without losing herself in the process.Published by Simon & Schuster / Simon Pulse Imprint But enemies are everywhere, Bree's own powers are unpredictable and dangerous, and she can't escape her growing attraction to Selwyn, the mage sworn to protect Nick until death. When the Regents reveal they will do whatever it takes to hide the war, Bree and her friends must go on the run to rescue Nick themselves. And Nick, the Legendborn boy Bree fell in love with, has been kidnapped. A Scion.īut the ancient war between demons and the Order is rising to a deadly peak. Now, Bree has become someone new: A Medium. So she infiltrated the Legendborn Order, a secret society descended from King Arthur's knights - only to discover her own ancestral power. The shadows have risen, and the line is law.Īll Bree wanted was to uncover the truth behind her mother's death.

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