I finally get to talk about a dystopian series I love again. It’s been a while since I spent every Saturday telling you to read The Hunger Games and Divergent series (and the Matched series and The Selection series…). Goodness, I read a lot of dystopian series. Sorry about that.
Just kidding, not sorry.
Around the time I was binge-reading all those books, I also read Legend and Prodigy
by Marie Lu, the first two books in the Legend series. The third book had not come out yet and I had to wait almost a year for it which drives me crazy. I like to start a series after all the books are out because I’m a brat and bad at waiting, but I didn’t wait for this one to be finished when I started. I devoured the first two in about a week and then by the time the last one, Champion
, came out, I had lost my momentum and it sat on my shelf for almost two years before I finally got around to it this summer.
See why I need the whole series at one time?
It took me a minute to sink back into the story, but once I did Champion by Marie Lu was just as addicting and exciting as the first two. This series revolves around two characters, Day and June, teenagers with nothing in common. June is a government prodigy from a prestigious and wealthy family who is on her way to become a military elite. Day is poor, wanted by the government for crimes, and has lost so much of his family to the government already. The setting is a post-America world where war and deceit are around every corner.
Of course, there is romance between these two characters and tons of twists, turners, and cliff hangers. Champion ties up the series well with an ending that might break your heart, but leaves you hopeful in the same breath. If you need a good dystopian series to get lost in, Legend
series by Marie Lu would be a great choice.
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Have you read the Shadow Children Series by Margaret Peterson Haddix—I read the series with my daughter when she was in 6th or 7th grade–We read the Hunger Games when she was in 5th grade based on a recommendation from her teacher–My daughter is now in 11th grade—I am new to your blog, but I saw that you have children. It is so awesome to read books together (separately, but at the same time)–it keeps the door open for great conversation when they are trying to separate from parents and figure out who they are–Thanks for sharing your reads–
YES! I use the Shadow Children series in my classroom with students all the time! Such a great book suggestion, thank you! My oldest is in first grade right now so we’re working our way through Junie B. Jones and The Magic Tree House books but I can’t wait until she’s a little older.
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