Flux Reviews: Prodigy by Marie Lu
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Title: Prodigy
Author: Marie Lu
Publication Date: April 8, 2014
Publisher: Speak
Format: Trade Paperback
Price: ₱399 (Philippines) - $6.29 (Amazon)
Plot Synopsis:
Elector Primo is dead.
With his son Anden in control. The Republic closes to chaos. Now joining the Patriots might be June and Day's only option.But choosing sides comes at a cost . . . if the Patriots are to trust them. June and Day must assassinate the new Elector.
Yet the more June and Day discovers the about the Revolution, the more suspicious they become.
What if the new Elector is nothing like his father?
What if he's their chance for a new beginning?
tion must be more than loss and vengeance, anger and blood—what if the Patriots are wrong?
With his son Anden in control. The Republic closes to chaos. Now joining the Patriots might be June and Day's only option.But choosing sides comes at a cost . . . if the Patriots are to trust them. June and Day must assassinate the new Elector.
Yet the more June and Day discovers the about the Revolution, the more suspicious they become.
What if the new Elector is nothing like his father?
What if he's their chance for a new beginning?
tion must be more than loss and vengeance, anger and blood—what if the Patriots are wrong?
The Review
Prodigy, with a name and a cover like that, I couldn't resist reading it especially after reading Legend.
“We're in this together, right?" he whispers. "You and me? You want to be here, yeah?" There's guilt in his questions. "Yes," I reply. "I chose this." Day pulls me close enough for our noses to touch. "I love you.”
After the Patriots helped June get Day out of getting executed, they run from California and heads out to find Day's little brother Eden who was taken away. Since the Patriots helped them, they are indebted to these rebels--whose pockets are suspiciously deep for a bunch of rag-tag terroristic rebels-- and what favor do they ask of them? To kill the Elector Primo, the Republic's head honcho.
But something unexpected happens: The Republic's dictator-like Elector Primo is dead. His son Anden replaces him and acts as if it his father didn't just die. And June finds out that the new Elector Primo isn't this empty figurehead that doesn't want change and to just carry out his father's policies, quite the opposite. Which makes her question her involvement in killing him, she sees his soul and is shocked at how . . . non-tyrannical it seems, at how much he really wants change in the Republic.
But I'm a very skeptical person, that's why I question whether this is just a mere facade of his, and is his being amazingly nice to June just a trick to win her over to his side and get Day to promote him as a good guy? To help him get access to the Patriots?
And then theres the romance. It really developed here, both with Day + June and . . . Tess? Well, for the longest time the only ones they could rely on was each other, scavenging food in the streets, it was bound to happen that Tess would like Day more than . . . just this. The romance and the action in these books is fast-paced and makes you hang on to every with as if you were drowning and they were your lifeboat. They will make you cringe, tear-up, and curl in a corner.
Compared to the Colonies, the Republic looks likes a steaming pile of shit. I mean, it's like rural Russia or Ukraine, and then Futuristic New York-esque cities. Glittering skyscrapers quite literally scraping the skies with their towing spires, clean and organised streets and every building is lit like a modern city should.
But you will question who's really funding the Patriots? Who really wants the new Elector Primo dead, just as June and Day questioned the Patriots, the Republic and the Colonies. This book will really make you question almost everything you thought you knew about Legend. Angst, love, and action awaits you in this second installment of Marie Lu's Legend series.
But I'm a very skeptical person, that's why I question whether this is just a mere facade of his, and is his being amazingly nice to June just a trick to win her over to his side and get Day to promote him as a good guy? To help him get access to the Patriots?
And then theres the romance. It really developed here, both with Day + June and . . . Tess? Well, for the longest time the only ones they could rely on was each other, scavenging food in the streets, it was bound to happen that Tess would like Day more than . . . just this. The romance and the action in these books is fast-paced and makes you hang on to every with as if you were drowning and they were your lifeboat. They will make you cringe, tear-up, and curl in a corner.
Compared to the Colonies, the Republic looks likes a steaming pile of shit. I mean, it's like rural Russia or Ukraine, and then Futuristic New York-esque cities. Glittering skyscrapers quite literally scraping the skies with their towing spires, clean and organised streets and every building is lit like a modern city should.
But you will question who's really funding the Patriots? Who really wants the new Elector Primo dead, just as June and Day questioned the Patriots, the Republic and the Colonies. This book will really make you question almost everything you thought you knew about Legend. Angst, love, and action awaits you in this second installment of Marie Lu's Legend series.
“Yeah, something was wrong. That was the understatement of the year.”
“You know, sometimes I wonder what things would be like if I just . . . met you one day. Like normal people do. If I just walked by you on some street one sunny morning and thought you were cute, stopped, shook your hand, and said, 'Hi, I'm Daniel.' "
“Day, the boy from the streets with nothing except the clothes on his back and the earnestness in his eyes, owns my heart. He is beauty, inside and out. He is the silver lining in a world of darkness. He is my light.”
My Rating:
4 out of 5 Fallen stars
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