Rebel (Legend Series #4) by Marie Lu
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Web ID: 11775446A satisfying ending
Legend, Prodigy, and Champion all flow together as if they were one whole book, and that's part of why I enjoy the trilogy so much. Marie Lu did an amazing job bringing everything to an end with Champion, but even then there were a few loose ends and the trilogy was practically begging for a fourth book to truly finish things off. Rebel was hard for me at first because it is told from the perspective of Eden and Day instead of June and Day, so the first few chapters are spent establishing Eden as a main character and unveiling his relationship with Day. At about the half-way mark the book definitely gets more exciting, and by the end I was completely satisfied with the result(s). If you felt like something was missing from the ending of the Legend trilogy, Rebel is the book for you. Regardless, I definitely recommend picking it up for it's unique view of the Legend universe.
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Dang, I really wanted to like it :(
Couldn’t get past the first half of the book. I tried soo hard. It was a dull and pointless fourth book—and I usually can’t put a series finale down! So disappointed :(
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Thrilling Finale, worth the read for Legend fans
******Spoiler warning for Legend Trilogy and Rebel****** It had been 7 years since I originally read the Legend trilogy and finished Champion. I remember being a teenager and wanting a clearer ending for Day and June, but Champion was the finale at the time, the end of a story. When I heard about the release of Rebel, I was thrilled beyond words. I knew before reading Rebel that I would need to reread the Legend trilogy. After listening to the Legend trilogy audiobooks, I fell in love with this series all over again. I went into Rebel with high expectations and a lot of hope, and I am happy to say that it exceeded my expectations and surpassed my wildest dreams for a series finale. Rebel begins a few months after the reunion of June and Day that marked the end of Champion. From the beginning, it was amazing to see the young man that Eden has grown into, but the truly amazing piece to see was Daniel’s character. Lu stayed true to the character of Day that we fell in love within the original trilogy but gives a new depth to his character and an air of adulthood that was vital to his character growth. The relationship development and change between Daniel and Eden was spectacular to give an underlying tension and conflict in this story to overcome that was beyond the villain of Hann. The resolution to this conflict, when Daniel takes Eden through the streets of Lake Sector and finally opens up to him was one of my favorite scenes in YA literature. “Daniel reaches out and seizes both of my wrists in his hands. “Look at me,” he says, his eyes locking on to mine. They are fierce in the night, and in them I see the same brother who had once stood up to an entire nation. “It is not weakness to open your heart. It does not make you less of a man to ask for help. To turn to someone when you’re vulnerable. To need a shoulder to cry on. You don’t have to bear the weight of anything by yourself. Do you understand me? I know what it’s like to be forced to go it alone. I never want you to feel that way.” This quote was something I wanted Day to understand throughout the Legend series, so to hear him say this to Eden was beautiful. The character growth of both Day and June from these young kids who changed their country, to adults who have a deeper understanding of the world and their feelings was beautiful. The overarching plot of this novel was phenomenal. I was very happy with the direction of this plot. Though I missed the setting of the Republic, I think that putting Antarctica’s Ross City as the place of turmoil and controversy was a great choice. Lu does a wonderful job of capturing that every society has its fault that leadership will try to hide away. Further she did an excellent job of showing how manipulative and grey the villain of this story was to Eden. The most important aspect to this book for me was June and Day’s relationship. In Legend, there was this sense of insta-love between June and Day. This was the main thing that troubled me with their relationship initially, but I think Lu resolved this throughout Prodigy and Champion. However, at the end of Champion we are left with this question of what was next. Rebel did an amazing job of picking up after Champion and giving me the ending that I savored for these two characters. The ending of this story gave me the closure that I needed for these two. I was worried about Eden’s perspective to begin with because I wanted to hear from June, even though this was Eden’s story. However, I did grow to love his young adult perspective. I enjoyed his interactions with Daniel in the latter half of the book and the vague interactions we see with him and June. I was glad to see that his romantic arc differed from Day/June’s. I think Pressa was an interesting character and brought out a very cute side to Eden and threw a different spin on young love to what Lu did with Legend. Overall, I loved this novel. This novel filled a void that was left when I read this series originally. If you have not read this novel and read the original trilogy in the past, I would highly recommend the Legend Trilogy audiobooks. The narrator for Day truly captures his character and made me fall back in love with this series again despite a seven-year age difference.
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Mixed feelings!
Rebel was the suprise 4th book in what was supposed to be the Legend trilogy. And it’s own I have very mixed feelings about. There was something poignantly wonderful about the ending of Champion, when Day and June meet each other after a decade apart from one another. Even though it’s a moment without clear answers, without a glimpse into the future, there’s something beautiful about the possibilities. This one was Eden’s story, as he finds his own way and purpose in the world. It hasn’t been easy, being the celebrated Day’s little brother. And he has frequently chafed at the bonds that his overly protective big brother has put on him. But as the story unfolds, their relationship changes in surprising ways. As always, I loved the world-building. There were hints of the author’s future Warcross books at the end of Champion, more fully expanded in Rebel. It’s a world that has got threads of the merit system currently being developed in China, which makes it all the more frightening with its implications. And June and Day… while this was mainly Eden’s story, it was also June and Day’s. They’d been apart for ten years at the end of Champion, and then there was even more separation before the start of Rebel. The feeling from the end of Champion, that they were meant to be, gets lost with the neverending half-relationship, all the time apart. So I had mixed feelings. The storyline was good, but it just didn’t have the same magic as the previous novels. My recommendation: Honestly, this was a take-it-or-leave it book for me. It was a good story, but it just didn’t add much to the fuller series.
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Thankful for this book
When the third book ended, i wasn’t happy with how the series ended! BUT, then the fourth book appeared and my little heart is so happy. Would recommend to anyone.
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