After reading the book Legend, I was left on my toes and jumpy, as for what was to come in the second novel of the trilogy. The book is sort of like a roller coaster, it stays low for a while, then all of a sudden, it shoots up, and only goes up. It is an intense and intriguing dystopian young adult novel by Marie Lu.

Legend is a book written in first person view of two 15 year olds in the dystopian Republic on land which used to be the United States. June, child prodigy, and Day, the Republic's most wanted criminal. The view of the book rotates every chapter, starting with Day. When June’s brother, Metias is killed, and the victim is Day, June goes into the poor sectors of the city, Los Angeles, to track him down. The story follows the two, finding all the secrets behind the Republic and the Colonies, (the country at which they are at war with, as well as the other half of the late US) and why the republic does such awful things to human experiments.

I would recommend this book to anyone who has a passion for reading, as well as those who don’t. You can take away the questioning of, is everything and everyone really what it appears to be or who they say they are? This book can teach you that you can’t trust everyone you meet, and sometimes, the ones who you doubt will come through for you at the end just might after all.