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A review by jess_justmaybeperfect
Legendborn by Tracy Deonn
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
inspiring
reflective
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
This is book 1 in a YA series about Bree Matthews, a 16 year old girl looking for the truth about her mother’s death.
She arrives for a pre-college program at the University her mother attended and is immediately exposed to a world she never could have imagined.
It’s a race, gender, and sexuality inclusive knights of the round table retelling with demons and ether and mage fire and even a complicated romance.*
Deonn tackles growing up, being away from home, grief, great parents, terrible parents, friendship, attraction, racism, classism, sexism, therapy, the legacy of US slavery, family histories, college party culture, first love, and more while Bree (and the reader) learn about an alternate universe full of power, success, and danger.
I cannot wait for my daughters to be old enough to read this.
*YA romance
She arrives for a pre-college program at the University her mother attended and is immediately exposed to a world she never could have imagined.
It’s a race, gender, and sexuality inclusive knights of the round table retelling with demons and ether and mage fire and even a complicated romance.*
Deonn tackles growing up, being away from home, grief, great parents, terrible parents, friendship, attraction, racism, classism, sexism, therapy, the legacy of US slavery, family histories, college party culture, first love, and more while Bree (and the reader) learn about an alternate universe full of power, success, and danger.
I cannot wait for my daughters to be old enough to read this.
*YA romance
Content Warnings
Graphic: Confinement, Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, Violence, Kidnapping, Death of parent, and Classism
Moderate: Rape