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Legendborn by Tracy Deonn

397 reviews

fairytales's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

• 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

4.5

This book is amazing and groundbreaking—I enjoy how Deonn takes common fantasy legends and flips them on their head in this story. She employs a magic based secret society to  make important statements about the power and perseverance of black women and the—usually unacknowledged—privilege of white people and especially white men. Those ideas are at the center of this story and I love how Deonn turns a overwhelmingly white secret society on its head. The ending is especially great. She does a great job with the mysteries as well—they are layered and complex so even as we solve part of a mystery, we discover another or are left with more questions. 

I have hopes that this series will be a 5 star one for me, but there were a few things about this first book that didn’t quite get me there on the fantasy side. The biggest one being that the demon fighting felt very one dimensional, in that this first book just focused on using ether to fight demons and didn’t get into a more interesting or complex purpose. While root and Patricia brought time walking and other magics to the table, I felt like the fantasy/magic side of this book fell a bit flat for me. That being said, there was a lot of world establishing in this book so I have hopes that the magic will grow in its meaning and complexity in book 2 and beyond.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Racism, and Grief

Moderate: Car accident, Rape, Injury/Injury detail, and Slavery

theaceofpages's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

Two faults. My race and my gender. But they are not faults. They are strength. And I am more than this man can comprehend.

Honestly, I was a little disappointed by this one. Don't get me wrong, it had good and important ideas, but I just really struggled to get into it properly. Maybe I'm just too old for it since I found a lot of the characters a little frustrating. I'm not saying that's a bad thing as they are teens and teens do act in the ways the characters did, but that doesn't mean I'm not allowed to get annoyed by them at the same time. I think younger me might have enjoyed it though so I'm going to skip rating it since it might just be me being the wrong age/ in the wrong mental space for it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racism, Violence, Blood, Slavery, and Death of parent

Minor: Car accident

jei_reads_sometimes's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced

• 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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Grief, Racism, Violence, Death of parent, and Death

Moderate: Alcohol, Blood, Car accident, Slavery, and Medical content

Minor: Abandonment, Rape, Pregnancy, and Child abuse

withlivjones's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.25

This book was so good! A well-conceived magic system (bonus points for the Welsh inspiration!!), so many incredible plot twists, and a lot of really thoughtful insights about grief and race (particularly important in a genre - Western fantasy - that is pretty Eurocentric). I thought the romance was a little mid - I’m not one for love triangles or tortured bad boys - but overall the story was fantastic and had me glued to the page. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, and Racism

Moderate: Rape and Car accident

racheldonna14's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring tense fast-paced

• 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

If I could give this book six stars I would.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Death, Sexism, Slavery, Misogyny, Hate crime, Racism, and Grief

Moderate: Sexual violence, Rape, Vomit, Stalking, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Medical content, Abandonment, Car accident, Homophobia, and Sexual assault

cottageivy's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

if i could give this a million stars i would holy shit no time to write a review i gotta start the second book

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Death of parent, Slavery, Racism, and Car accident

le3713's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.5

Legendborn doesn't remind me of any other fantasy novel and I love that - Arthurian legend meets reckoning with slavery, and dose of campus vibes on the side

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Death of parent, and Racism

Moderate: Slavery, Rape, and Violence

Minor: Car accident

apersonfromflorida's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced

• 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Death of parent, and Grief

Moderate: Slavery, Car accident, and Rape

spess's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Death of parent, and Grief

Moderate: Colonisation, Slavery, Racism, and Bullying

Minor: Abandonment, Child abuse, Car accident, and Rape

charliebites's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Racism, Blood, War, Death of parent, Panic attacks/disorders, Classism, Colonisation, Death, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Car accident, Hate crime, and Slavery

Minor: Racial slurs, Body horror, Rape, Police brutality, Child abuse, and Vomit