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charleshasalibrary's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
Honestly, this is one of my favorite books I've read all year, and I'm not a huge YA person. But Bree is such a magnetic character, and DAMN do the mysteries in this book never stop coming. Deonn's mastery with weaving in the reality of trauma and being a black woman in America put Legendborn on a whole other level for me, though. Between all of that and then the LGBTQ representation to boot, I am never gonna shut up about this book.
All I can say without spoilers is I cannot wait to see more of Bree and to follow her in her journey. And...okay, yes, I am a teenage queer at heart and want more Sel, too.
Graphic: Death of parent, Rape, Grief, Death, Racism, Transphobia, Violence, War, Car accident, Cursing, Slavery, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical content
Moderate: Infidelity and Kidnapping
bootsmom3's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
Graphic: Car accident, Classism, Cursing, Animal death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Death of parent, Grief, Racism, and Death
Moderate: Sexism, War, Medical content, Misogyny, Racial slurs, and Murder
Minor: Rape, Sexual violence, and Slavery
ofpagesandparagraphs's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Moderate: Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, Car accident, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Death, Grief, and Slavery
ems_rxlibrary's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Graphic: Death of parent and Racism
Moderate: Slavery
Minor: Cursing
booksalacarte's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.75
After her mother dies in an accident, sixteen-year-old Bree Matthews wants nothing to do with her family memories or childhood home. A residential program for bright high schoolers UNC-Chapel Hill scems like the perfect escape until Bree witness a magical attack her very first night on campus.
A flying demon feeding on human energies.
A secret society of so-called "Legendlborn" students who hunt the creatures down.
And a mysterious teenage mage who calls him self a “Merlin” and who attempts -and fails- to wipe Bree's memory of every thing she saw,
The mage's failure reveals Bree's own unique magic and a buried memory with a hidden connection: the night her mother died, another Merlin was at the hospital. Now that Bree knows there's more to her mother's death than what's on the police report, she'll do whatever it takes to find out the truth, even if that means infiltrating the Legendborn as one of their initiates.
She recruits Nick, a self-exiled Legendlborn with his own grudge against the group, and their reluctant partnership pulls them deeper into the society's secrets and closer to each other. But when the Legendborn reveal themselves as the descendants of King Arthur's knights and explain that a magical war is coming, Bree has to decide how or she'll go for the truth and whether she should us her magic to take the society down- or join the fight
✨My Opinion✨
I really loved this book! The depiction of Bree’s grief, the knights of the round table lore, the acknowledgement of southern slave history and how messed up it is. There was so much I loved. It was awesome!
I do wish that Bree had been older than 16. It makes me wonder how many books will be in this series and if it will move from YA into NA territory. There is plenty of sexual tension… I am torn between if I want that to happen or not. With how fast the plot progresses, I think that this series won’t span a very long period of time.
My other mini complaint is that a little more physical descriptions of the characters throughout the book would have done wonders. At one point I couldn’t remember what one of the main characters looked like, and I had to go back to their intro to get the picture of them back in my head. I wasn’t thrilled to have been pulled out of the book for something easy to implicate just a tad more.
Other than that, I loved the exposition and learning about everything involved in the Lore of this magic system along side the MC’s. I can’t wait to get my hands on the second book!
Graphic: Murder, Death of parent, Grief, Vomit, Slavery, Panic attacks/disorders, and Blood
Moderate: Murder, Cursing, Blood, Medical content, and Racism
Minor: Car accident and Racial slurs
a_libra_library's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
5.0
Graphic: Death, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Colonisation, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Rape, Blood, Body horror, Car accident, Child abuse, Child death, Classism, Cursing, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, and War
Minor: Sexual content
soniajoy98's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
Graphic: Sexism, Violence, War, Slavery, Death, Blood, Death of parent, Kidnapping, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Misogyny, and Racism
Moderate: Rape, Sexual harassment, Classism, Colonisation, Forced institutionalization, and Infidelity
Minor: Car accident, Child abuse, Cursing, and Transphobia
jadedillon's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.5
There was so much history and background, and I ended up loving so many of the characters. The plot and type of fantasy was so original with diverse characters!
Two things that I struggled with (which was what made 4.5 instead of 5).
1. The age - I was hoping because it was at college we wouldn't end up with a 16 Year Old MC but nope, Bree is so young.
2. The world building - there was a lot of info dumping which made some of it hard to follow. The Scions and Squire etc. and all the characters got a bit jumbled for me.
Graphic: Animal death, Racial slurs, Blood, Classism, Cursing, Sexism, Car accident, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Slavery, Death of parent, Death, Hate crime, and Racism
danicampbell0506's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.75
Graphic: Death, Death of parent, and Grief
Moderate: Racism, Rape, Sexism, and Slavery
Minor: Cursing
siennakt30's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Moderate: Blood, Car accident, Colonisation, Cursing, Death, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Murder, Pregnancy, Racism, Sexual harassment, Alcohol, Sexual violence, Slavery, Violence, War, Death of parent, and Grief