Legend, by Marie Lu, is about a girl named June and a boy named Day and they're both fifteen. They each have a different story to tell, but near the end of the book they both are fighting for each other's life. Day a sneaky criminal, is wanted by the Republic for assault, burned fighter jets engines, theft, destruction of Military property and trying to stop the war that is going on. He is wanted for 200,000 notes(money in the book). He does many things to the government, he always does his breaking in and robberies at night and he never kills anyone. June, a student at Drake University, is quite a trouble maker, but she still gets a perfect score, or perfect grades. Later, she becomes a detective and she inspects a crime scene to realize that she is looking at her nineteen year old brother Metias who is dead. She thinks that Day killed him because Day did a hospital break in but didn't get captured. At the end of the book Day gets captured so, June has to check up on him every once an a while. So, they have conversations then June gets a little guilty and she thinks of some ways to help him escape from the Republic. June plans to free him on his execution date when he is about to go out to the firing squad. She maid a deal with the the Patriots and she gave them the 200,000 notes she got for capturing Day also with an electro-bomb. They agreed so, the day of the execution date they would set of the electro-bomb and hold of the Republic solders. But, the Republic had the execution date one day earlier so June thought that the Patriots wouldn't show up. The Patriots did so day escaped and went into hiding but, while they were running to the exit they didn't have enough time because the guns would be able to shoot so, Day's brother John also escaped and he went to hold the Republic solders of to give Day and June enough time. John got executed instead but, the Republic thought he was Day and on the jumbo-trons it said that Day got executed.
I think that the main theme of Legend would be "don't give up." A few reasons why is when Day's little brother Eden had the plague disease he tried to get different medicines to keep Eden feeling well until he had enough notes (money) to get some plague cures. Also, later on in the book June tried to find imformation to see if Day really did kill Metias and if the Republic purposely spread the plague disease to poor sectors. Last, is at the end of the book Day and June form an alliance and keep trying to escape from the Republic and his execution date. That's why I think "don't give up" is the theme for this book.
I would recommend this book to other seventh graders who likes action, some romance, and that also likes to read series of books. There is a sequel and at the end of this book there is the the first thirteen pages of it. The name of the second book in this series is Prodigy. There is a third book in the series named Champion, but it doesn't come until November 5, 2013. You should think about reading Legend for your second book review if you haven't already.
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