Sunday, January 28, 2018

13. Prodigy by Marie Lu

Legend #2
listened to on Audible
2013 Putnam Juvenile
371 pgs.
YA Dystopia
Finished 1/28/18
Goodreads rating: 4.28 - 168,664 ratings
My rating:  4
Setting:  Denver Colorado in the Future

First line/s:  "Day jolts awake beside me."

My comments: This is definitely a sit-on-the-edge-of-your-seat book.  You never knew what was going to happen next.  It However, I'm still not totally sold about Day and June's relationship.  I wasn't half as upset about the throw-the-book-across-the-room ending as I expected I would be.  I actually think that June and Ander make a better couple...

Goodreads synopsis: Injured and on the run, it has been seven days since June and Day barely escaped Los Angeles and the Republic with their lives. Day is believed dead having lost his own brother to an execution squad who thought they were assassinating him. June is now the Republic's most wanted traitor. Desperate for help, they turn to the Patriots - a vigilante rebel group sworn to bring down the Republic. But can they trust them or have they unwittingly become pawns in the most terrifying of political games?

Amazon:  June and Day arrive in Vegas just as the unthinkable happens: the Elector Primo dies, and his son Anden takes his place. With the Republic edging closer to chaos, the two join a group of Patriot rebels eager to help Day rescue his brother and offer passage to the Colonies. They have only one request—June and Day must assassinate the new Elector.
It’s their chance to change the nation, to give voice to a people silenced for too long.           
          But as June realizes this Elector is nothing like his father, she’s haunted by the choice ahead. What if Anden is a new beginning? What if revolution must be more than loss and vengeance, anger and blood—what if the Patriots are wrong?

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