{"id":1771,"date":"2013-04-02T15:52:01","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T15:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=1771"},"modified":"2015-04-04T18:38:07","modified_gmt":"2015-04-04T18:38:07","slug":"legend-by-marie-lu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=1771","title":{"rendered":"Legend by Marie Lu"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Legend\"<\/p>\n

In post-apocalyptic North America, two countries have replaced the former United States of America — The Republic and The Colonies.\u00a0 Fighting against both of them is also a rebel group that calls itself the Patriots.\u00a0 Though it isn’t clear if The Colonies are any better, readers can easy ascertain that The Republic is not so much a republic as a totalitarian regime.\u00a0 This story is told from the alternating perspectives of characters named Day and June —\u00a0 Day is an independent anarchist who refuses to work for the Patriots but still does everything in his power to sabotage The Republic in their war efforts against The Colonies; June is a military prodigy who got a perfect score on her entrance exams and has been fast-tracked through military training school.<\/p>\n

I think the duel narration was a great way to make readers more sympathetic to characters on both sides of the spectrum and to gradually unfold details about what\u00a0is happening both around the country and in Los Angeles [where both Day and June live].\u00a0 The truth is, while life is clearly better for some people in The Republic, no one is truly free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In post-apocalyptic North America, two countries have replaced the former United States of America — The Republic and The Colonies.\u00a0 Fighting against both of them is also a rebel group that calls itself the Patriots.\u00a0 Though it isn’t clear if The Colonies are any better, readers can easy ascertain that The Republic is not so … Continue reading Legend by Marie Lu<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-young-adults","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-chrissie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}