Champion: A Legend Novel

Honestly when i first got this as a christmas present from my best friend i thought it was not going to be a good book based on its cover. I know I know horrible of me. I read the series in a matter of 3 days. This has got to be one of the most amazing trigly I have ever encountered. Its nothing like you would expect from a regular trilogy. Before I even knew what was happing i feel head over heels for day and june absolute blindly in love.This book has wormed itself into my soul and is probably there for good. As an older sister i recognized the need to protect my younger sibling with everything I have, i can so relate that to Day and Eden. It takes a lot for me to cry when reading a book and let me tell you it has happened very seldom, and i was bawling like a baby. These books draws you in from the first line and don't let you go. This book is not your typical love story its complicated and real, they have real raw feelings for each other, ladies and gentlemen buckle yourselves up for a crazy love roller coaster . I myself an avid book reader recommend this trilogy to anyone and everyone who reads. Words cannot describe how intricate the plan is what careful and creative time it took to think this plot out, it just boggles my mind congratulations to you Mrs. Lu you are an utter genius and should be given an award for staying true to the overall theme of these amazing books. CAUTION AHEAD CONTAINS SPOILERS!!! Lets vent a little shall we? OK so first off what the hell is wrong with commander Jameson. that is one evil jerk, nothing but bitterness and ice are etched in her soul and i just hated her with all my heart, each time she shot Day a little peace of me was chipped away. Tomas i started to feel kinda bad for Tomas at the end. but then i remembered get a back bone!! you loved Metias... and then killed him. Are you serious? All because of a command?! but as I said i felt bad for him and was glad he died with honor and dignity. Day Let me start off with how day captured my heart from the very first chapters of Legend. After 8 torturous months apart while Day was getting his treatment for being sick ( crushed my heart) June invites him personally to the ball, obviously an offer he cant refuse, he accepts. The first time they see each other again was in a ball, when he sees June in that stunning, gorgeous, dress he falls for her all over again. The way he couldn't forgive June for his families deaths was...real and it gave the book a real feel to it. now im all for June and Day 100 % believe me. With June only having a few months to live he knows he cant take anything for granted. In the middle of the war Day races for Eden (of course he would) and each time commander Jameson shot Day my heart got ripped out and stomped on, i sobbed with June as she flung herself over his unconscious body and wailed. June Now im soo into kick a** leading ladies. I love June. I Love how she can disarm a fully grown man at the age of 16 without so much of a blink, I love how she loves Day very much but carries the guilt with her about his family. I love how she always puts others before herself. You could see how much she loved Day when she flung herself over his body and wailed as if her life was ending. The ending got me real bad i was sobbing!! When she sits by Days bed waiting for him to come out of his coma everyday it made my heart swell. Then when he woke up and didn't recognize her my heart had been pummeled into a lump. i cried some more. Then when he asks if he knows her, she replied no, even thou how much she loved him she knew it would be better for him if she was out of the picture.I cried some more. Epilogue leaving the book off like that made me very very angry such a good trilogy and such a horrible ending then i read the epilogue. it summed up perfectly how things should have gone, it was very short and sweet, but not short enough to leave it without important details. ok so 10 years later its Junes 27 birthday , it explains her past birthdays with friends, her first birthday without Ollie (SO SAD!!), she even dated the Elector for a few years but then broke up with him because she could not love him like he needed her to. So its her 27th birthday she visits Metias at his grave, and hears that Day is in town with Eden, she is wondering around the lake sector and sees an older Day and Eden, Eden spots her first but does not say anything to see if Day will recognize June, he gives her a lingering look but nothing more, hurt and frustrated June walks quickly ahead fighting tears, when she hears footsteps thud behind her, it was Day (Daniel) saying she looked familiar again June claimed not to know him for his own good but in his eyes she saw that the wound she had caused with the death of his Mother and Brother, had healed. No longer hurt, he claims he lost something and he has found it again by looking at her. Probably the most brilliant ending to a series EVER was Daniel ( no longer going by Day and going by his REAL name) says "its you" to witch she replies " Is it??" he says staring into her eyes "theres a fog around you and I would like it to clear" He reaches out and takes her hand..... " Hi" he says " I'm Daniel" 'Hi" I reply " I'm June" So probably the best ending in HISTORY! as i said i recommend this book to anyone who has a heart and is breathing. This book changed me andI'm positive it will change you too. This series is worth it. You will not be disappointed. Thank you Marie Lu for such an amazing gift.

This review and more can be found on my blog, The Library Canary: [...] The end of an awesome series is really bittersweet. I was so excited for this book, but also dreading it. I never wanted it to end. After rereading Legend and Prodigy recently, I decided that this is my favorite dystopian series I've read. And if you know me, you know how many dystopians I read. After reading a disappointing ending to Allegiant, I was so worried for this one. The last book in a series is so difficult. Ultimately it's the author’s book and it's completely up to them how to end their series, but still, as a crazy fangirl, I want it to end in the best way possible. I want everyone to get their happily ever after, but that's not always how it works out. So I started this book with a mixture of excitement and trepidation. I shouldn’t have worried. Marie Lu is amazing. This was such an awesome finish to the Legend series! I am so happy with the way everything worked out. There’s one thing I can’t decide about, but we’ll get to that. Holy action. There are so many crazy action scenes in this book. We get to see June and Day scale buildings. There are multiple bombings. There’s even a hand to hand fight that was epic! There’s so much craziness going on; I was on the edge of my seat the whole time reading. Marie Lu does such an awesome job describing her action scenes. I could easily picture everything unfolding in my head. There is still a massive amount of tension between the Republic and the Colonies in this book and it comes to a head at a certain point. S*** blows up (literally) and chaos ensues. The plague that Eden was infected with has spread through the colonies and they are demanding a cure. Their armies are about ready to run over the Republic and if they don't get help soon, they will fall to the Colonies. The Republic attempts to turn to Antarctica for help, but it won’t be easy to get them to agree. We actually get to go visit Antarctica in this book and it was one of my favorite parts. It was so interesting to get some information about the rest of the world. And Antarctica was so cool! The city sounded breathtaking. I wanted to climb inside the book and walk through the buildings right next to June. They also had some pretty kickass technology that I wanted to play with. Before we talk about Day and June, I want to take a moment to commend Marie Lu on the alternating POVs. Multiple POVs in a book is difficult to do and if you read my review of Allegiant, you know that it doesn’t always work. But Marie Lu pulls this off flawlessly. I never questioned which perspective I was reading from. Day and June both have such distinctive voices that I can always tell whose head I am in. Okay, now let’s talk about the romance. God, I love these two. They are so perfect for each other. Both smart, strong, analytical, risk takers. Day loves with such passion and I absolutely love that about him. And June has come so far from the first book. She has come from a blind follower to a young woman who makes her own decisions based on her own scale of morality. I absolutely love her character. Perfection. “You’re the scariest, most clever, bravest person I know, and sometimes I can’t catch my breath because I’m trying so hard to keep up. There will never be another like you. You realize that, don’t you? Billions of people will come and go in this world, but there will never be another like you.” –Day “Before me is the boy who has bandaged my wounds on the streets of the Lake, who has guarded his family with every bone in his body, who has stayed by my side in spite of everything, the boy of light and laughter and life, of grief and fury and passion, the boy whose fate is intertwined with mine, forever and always.” –June There were so many emotions in this book, so many feels. The ending ripped me to shreds. And I can’t decide if it’s in a good way or a bad way. I understand why Marie Lu did what she did and honestly I don’t see any other way she could have written it to make it work. But oh man, was it hard to read. I was literally sobbing. I’ve never cried so hard reading a book. The epilogue was perfect though. Beautiful, touching, exactly what I wanted it to be and it definitely made up for what had to happen at the end of the book. Although there was one part of the epilogue that literally made me growl (if you’ve read the book, I’m sure you know what I’m talking about). I am 100% satisfied with this conclusion to Marie Lu's awesome Legend series. These books are kickass. If you haven't started the series yet, what are you waiting for? All three books are out now! Commence the binge reading!

This is such an epic story line of triumph over evil, working as a nation and finding love in the most dangerous of times. The mind behind the book that is Marie Lu, should be celebrated no end. If there was an option for more than 5 stars I would take it! Through the tears and the screams of anguish anyone will undoubtedly experience, you will find a well polished, exciting and heart warming conclusion to the <i>Legend</i> Trilogy. I found myself holding a tentative breath at times getting caught up in the action. I don’t think it could have ended any better. It is so charming to read a really compelling story but at the same time you experience that all too inevitable feeling; that enormous detachment from knowing “it’s the end”. Lu has positioned the trilogy in such a way that, yes in fact it has ended, but has it come to the end of the road for Day and June? I really got into the characters this time around and was surprised at how much I connected with Day. It is evident the time Lu has spend on perfecting his softer more vulnerable side, his hidden daemons and inner conflicts. 'And yet, I can’t blame Day either. I try to put myself in his shoes. The republic tries to kill me as a ten-tear-old; they experiment on me before I escape. I live the next few years in the harshest slums of Los Angeles. I watch the republic poison my family, kill my mother and older brother with their engineered plagues, because of the public’s experiments, I’m slowly dying. And now, after all the lies and cruelty, the republic approaches me, begging for my help'. This quote sums it up for me. It’s like bang, bang, bang in quick succession. It’s one thing after another in Day’s life. But it appears that even though he was let down by the government he fights for, he still remains faithful. I must say that Lu has come a long way since <i>Legend.</i> I’m so glad that she has managed to improve her skills with her plot choices, character positioning and awareness of setting. The technology mentioned in this conclusive novel is outstanding. It is so brilliantly executed that they are immediately believable upon reading about it. Amongst other things, those extra refined details have got her to the place she is now- she has her fans screaming out for more. You only have to look at other peoples’ reviews to see this. Just a little message to the author: Lu, it wasn’t so much Day who won the heart of the people, it was you!

Auf der deutschen Website der „Legend“ – Trilogie vom Loewe-Verlag kann man einen Test machen, ob man eher wie June oder eher wie Day ist. Soldat oder Rebell? Ich fand das ganz witzig, also habe ich die Fragen beantwortet. Der Test ist ziemlich leicht zu durchschauen, daher war das Ergebnis für mich nicht überraschend: ich wäre auf den Straßen der Republik zu Hause, wie Day. Nicht mal im realen Leben wäre ich eine gute Soldatin, wie könnte ich da je mit June mithalten? Zum ersten Mal seit ihrer Gründung scheint die Republik in eine bessere Zukunft zu blicken. Nicht nur schaffte Elector Anden die Tests und die Experimente ab, er treibt auch die Friedensverhandlungen mit den Kolonien aktiv voran. Diese werden jedoch jäh unterbrochen, als sich in den Kolonien ein tödliches Virus ausbreitet. Die Regierung ist überzeugt, dass die Republik dafür verantwortlich ist. Sie verlangen, dass Anden ihnen ein Heilmittel liefert, andernfalls drohen sie, die Republik anzugreifen. Doch die Wahrheit ist, dass es kein Heilmittel gibt. In seiner Verzweiflung sieht Anden nur eine Möglichkeit: er ersucht June, Day um Hilfe zu bitten. Sein kleiner Bruder Eden könnte die Lösung sein. June weiß, wie viel sie damit von Day verlangt. Wird er dieses größte aller Opfer erbringen können, um die Republik zu retten? „Champion“ hat meine Meinung von Marie Lu als Autorin bestätigt. Es ist ein tolles und würdiges Finale ihrer Trilogie, das Junes und Days Geschichte perfekt abschließt. Nach all der Aufregung im Vorgänger „Prodigy“ war ich ratlos, wie es jetzt weitergehen sollte, aber Lu hat wirklich noch einmal tief in die Ideen-Schatzkiste gegriffen und einen Abschluss konstruiert, der mich rundum zufrieden zurücklässt. Ich bin stark beeindruckt, dass die Handlung so natürlich wirkt. Alles, was in „Champion“ passiert, ist eine logische Konsequenz aus den vorangegangenen Bänden. Ich habe nicht erwartet, dass Marie Lus Geschichte so stimmig und rund enden würde. Als besonders herausragend empfand ich, dass sich die Autorin nicht auf ihrer Vorarbeit ausruht. Stattdessen baut sie das begonnene Bild ihrer Dystopie weiter aus, fügt neue Details hinzu und arbeitet es in einen größeren Kontext ein. Ihre LeserInnen lernen die politische Situation der gesamten Welt kennen, über die Grenzen von Republik und Kolonien hinweg. June besucht an der Seite von Elector Anden die Antarktis, die sich aufgrund der globalen Erwärmung zu einem florierenden, fortschrittlichen Staat entwickelt hat. Dort sind die Lebensumstände noch einmal völlig anders als in der Republik und den Kolonien; ich fand es spannend, dass Lu drei komplett unterschiedliche Gesellschaftssysteme nebeneinander gestellt hat, ohne sie zu offensichtlich zu vergleichen. Den LeserInnen ist es selbst überlassen, Schlüsse zu ziehen und zu entscheiden, welches sie am attraktivsten finden. Ich für meinen Teil würde die Republik wählen. Auch muss ich unbedingt anmerken, dass all die globalen Entwicklungen, die Marie Lu portraitiert, durchaus realistisch sind. Sie scheint das Weltgeschehen aufmerksam zu verfolgen, sodass sie nicht auf abstrakte Zukunftsvisionen zurückgreifen musste, sondern die Tendenzen der Realität in eine überzeugende Dystopie umformen konnte. Ebenso überzeugend empfand ich die Entwicklung der beiden Hauptcharaktere. Der Unterschied zwischen Day und June im ersten Band der Trilogie und Day und June in „Champion“ ist riesig. Sie durchleben eine wahrhafte Metamorphose. Sie werden beide erwachsen, wenn auch viel zu schnell und viel zu früh. Niemals wäre die June vom Anfang der Geschichte in der Lage gewesen, ein solch selbstloses Opfer zu bringen wie im Finale, obwohl es ihr schlicht und ergreifend das Herz bricht. Auch in meinem Herz hat es hörbar geknirscht, denn Days und Junes Beziehung ist von so viel Kummer geprägt, dass sie nicht spurlos an mir vorbeigehen konnte. Ich habe einige Tränchen für die beiden vergossen, doch zum Glück waren es am Ende hauptsächlich Freudentränen, denn trotz all der Schmerzen ist dieses sehr hoffnungsvoll. Marie Lu glaubt an die Liebe und daran, dass sie alle Gräben überwinden kann – manchmal braucht sie dafür nur ein wenig mehr Zeit. Was bin ich glücklich, dass ich diese Trilogie nicht nach dem ersten Band abgebrochen habe. Wie viel wäre mir entgangen, wie viel hätte ich verpasst. Ich kann den Hype, der um „Legend“ herum entstanden ist, absolut verstehen. Besonders mit dieser bestechenden Glaubwürdigkeit habe ich nicht gerechnet. Natürlich ist das Finale „Champion“ sehr dramatisch und vielleicht war es auch ein Müh zu viel des Guten, aber ich muss gestehen, Day und June haben mein Herz berührt und dadurch hat mich all das Drama nicht wirklich gestört, auch wenn es mir aufgefallen ist. Letztendlich darf man ja auch die Zielgruppe nicht aus den Augen verlieren. Ich kann euch „Legend“ guten Gewissens empfehlen. Marie Lu ist eine YA – Autorin, die mit beiden Füßen fest auf dem Boden zu stehen scheint und sich keineswegs in abstrusen Gedankenspielen verliert. Ich werde ihr Schaffen auf jeden Fall weiter verfolgen und freue mich bereits darauf, ihre neue Serie „The Young Elites“ zu lesen.

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