Legend

I finally started  Legend by Marie Lu.  It's set in the future in the LA area.  I wish I knew a bit more about that area so I could follow the setting.  (It's the same when I read Divergent, but that's another post.)  It is written in first person, which I love, between two characters Day and June.  I find it kind of cool because when it's Day narrating the type in in gold and June's type is black.  The story starts with June getting in trouble at school because she went off campus to practice climbing a building because Day, who is a fugitive, can do it so she needs to be able to in order to catch him.  She gets suspended and her brother Metias has to come get her from school.  At the same time day is trying to get plague cure for his brother.  During a break in at the hospital to get the cure Day kills Metias which sends June on a man hunt to find him.  That's the basic plot so far.

Now my thoughts so far...

I don't trust Thomas.  He was just a bit too happy to torture a prisoner.  He's obviously in love with June.  He comes off as a very timid character but you can see a calculatingness (not a real word I know) beneath it all.  I also don't trust Commander Jameson, obviously.  In dystopian books the government officials are never to be trusted.  I tend to think that either Commander Jameson or Thomas may have killed Metias.  If Day did indeed do it, then it was unintentional.  It's not in his character to intentionally kill someone.

Tess is adorable.  I like how Day is protective of her.  She's like a little sister to him.  She's a good little healer too.  She's been able to heal not only Day from his hospital jump out the window but also June from her stab wound.  As much as I like a good love triangle in books I hope the author doesn't put Tess, Day and June in one.  But I can see a Thomas, Day and June one.

At this point Day has been caught because they came to get his family and he tried to save them.  Day's mother was killed by Commander Jameson even though she told June there would be no one hurt in the raid.  I have about half the book left.  I will probably finish it in the next day or so.