Prodigy, Marie Lu (3.5)
‘Prodigy’ is the follow-up book to ‘Legend’ (reviewed June
13, 2013), the YA story that introduced two strong characters, Day and June. In
this chapter of their story they join the Patriots and work together to take
revenge on the Republic who took both their families from them. I liked this
book as much as the first, though it had some of the same problems. The moony
romance of the two main characters had the completely predictable third parties
thrown in to highlight their insecurities. Luckily, what we learn about the
rest of the world is more interesting and complicated. We find out how the
Republic came to be and what drove the trials, the tests taken by youth to
determine who is fit for military duty. Somewhat predictably nothing is as they
assumed outside of the Republic, but I think the story was stronger for the
good and bad that they find. The book has an ending, but sets up nicely for the
just released third book.
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