Title- Legendborn
Author- Tracy Deonn
Series- Legendborn
Pages- 501
Publisher- Simon & Schuster/Mc Elderry
Genre- Contemporary, YA Fantasy, Own Voices, Diversity
Rating- 5/5
ISBN- 9781534441606
Review No.- 49
Synopsis-
After her mother dies in an accident, sixteen-year-old Bree Matthews wants nothing to do with her family memories or childhood home. A residential program for bright high schoolers at UNC-Chapel Hill seems like the perfect escape-until Bree witnesses a magical attack her very first night on campus.
A flying demon feeding on human energies.
A secret society of so called "Legendborn" students that hunt the creatures down.
And a mysterious teenage mage who calls himself a "Merlin" and who attempts-and fails-to wipe Bree's memory of everything she saw.
The mage's failure unlocks Bree's own unique magic and a buried memory with a hidden connection: the night her mother died, another Merlin was at the hospital. Now that Bree knows there's more to her mother's death than what's on the police report, she'll do whatever it takes to find out the truth, even if that means infiltrating the Legendborn ad one of their initiates.
She recruits Nick, a self-exiled Legendborn with his own grudge against the group, and their reluctant partnership pulls them deeper into the society's secrets-and closer to each other. But when the Legendborn reveal themselves as the descendants of King Arthur's knights and explain that a magical war is coming, Bree has to decide how far she'll go for the truth and whether she should use her magic to take the society down-or join the fight.
Review-
I immediately picked the book up as soon as it was released because of its gorgeous cover. I did not expect the story inside to be even more mind-blowingly powerful and I finally saw what the hype for this book was all about. This is one of those books that I had been desperately recommend all my bookworm friend to read (if you're reading this review and haven't read Legendborn yet, then quit reading more reviews and just get the bloody damn book!!!). And the fact that the release date for the sequel was not announced when I finished reading this book, was just killing me.
In Legendborn, we follow Briana (Bree) Matthews, a Black American girl, who gets accepted into the Early College Program at UNC Chapel hill, the college of her dreams, as she struggles to cope wirh her mother's tragic loss. But whe she stumbles upon a demon attack on the first day of college, Bree is sucked into the world of demons, arthurian legends and the Legendborn, which makes her question if her mother's death is all that it seems to be...
The writing style is wonderful- easy to understand yet so full of power. All the themes in the book like racism, black american history, arthurian legends, hereditary power and ancestral magic were well blend and given justice to. The characters were diverse and amazing. This book has so much of representation both in terms of race and in terms of sexuality. I especially loved Alice and her hilarious banters with Bree. I like Nick x Bree ship and I really want them to be the endgame but it's like I know somewhere in my heart that that wouldn't be the case (Sel x Bree). And Sel's giving me "Will Herondale" vibes, so maybe we will get to know about and love him more in the next two books. And GODS...the twist at the end was so unexpected! I totally did not see that coming.
Overall, I LOVED this book. It is my favorite book of 2021 (last year's favorite was The Ten Thousand Doors of January). As I said before I strongly recommend this book to everybody- readers, friends and enemies. Just give it a read and you won't regret it!
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