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Legendborn by Tracy Deonn

100 reviews

klsreads's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense 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? It's complicated

5.0

God-tier. An absolutely perfect debut. This book made me cry so hard, and I loved every minute of it. I loved the characters and their relationships (don't talk to me about Bree and her mom). There are non-tokenized queer and nonbinary characters and a bisexual male love interest (!!!!!!!). It reckons with grief, racial trauma, colonization, and the premature deaths of Black folks in America. It meditates on history, who is remembered, and what it means to be cut off from ancestral knowledge and power (literally and figuratively). It mythologizes and reckons with real racial struggles and white supremacy.The magic system is so unique and fun. Sprint to get this book. Tracy Deonn is unbelievably talented, and I will read whatever she writes.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Racism, Slavery, Grief, Kidnapping, Violence, Bullying, Colonisation, Death of parent, Mental illness, Murder, War, and Blood

Moderate: Medical content, Car accident, Rape, Alcohol, Torture, Classism, Confinement, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Panic attacks/disorders, Pregnancy, Racial slurs, Hate crime, Infidelity, Religious bigotry, Sexual harassment, and Body horror

Minor: Police brutality, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Stalking, and Vomit

mamatrauma's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Cursing, Violence, Racism, Medical content, Death, Murder, Gore, Death of parent, Blood, Grief, Kidnapping, Car accident, and Injury/Injury detail

nikki_flowers's review

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Medical content, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, Violence, Sexism, Sexual violence, Kidnapping, Racial slurs, and Rape

lmayfieldx's review against another edition

adventurous slow-paced

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

3.0

“𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐬 𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐞, 𝐬𝐨 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭. 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐝, 𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥. 𝐛𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠’𝐬 𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞, 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫’𝐬 𝐦𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭, 𝐛𝐲 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐨𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐥𝐚𝐰”

⭐️: 3

🌶️: 1

tw: mention of parent passing, violence, death, medical content, gore, racism, bigotry

♦️ first person

♦️ chosen one

♦️ king arthur retelling

♦️ magic

♦️ insta love

♦️ love triangle

♦️ ancestral pain

♦️ past trauma

♦️ poc rep

♦️ lgbtqia+ rep 

bree is struggling with the loss of her mom. they argued about the school she got accepted into right before her death…the school that bree is starting soon

during bree’s first night on campus, she witnesses a magical fight. a merlin attempts to wipe her memory, but she remembers everything. this leads her to remember the same thing occurring at the hospital the night that her mom died

bree befriends nick, a legendborn that has refused to be in the order. she tells him of her troubles and recruits him to help her find out what really happened to her mom 

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i reeeeally wanted to enjoy this one. but i found myself struggling through this one & even contemplated dnfing, but decided to push through, because it really had potential

i was fairly confused throughout a good portion of the book. i even tried slowing down the audiobook (i usually listen at 2.0+ speed lol) and rewinding several times, but still found myself confused. i thought maybe it was just bc i was listening to the audiobook, but other reviews that i read after finishing also expressed that a lot of other readers were confused too. this was incredibly frustrating, bc how can you really enjoy a book if you’re confused about the stuff happening the majority of the time?? 

there is a lot of info dumping. sometimes the majority of the chapter would just be explaining the different magical beings or sources of magic - which, yes we need to know all of this information, but it could’ve been incorporated throughout the book better. also, bree seemed to know all of the magic but simultaneously not fully know what was going on. as the reader it was difficult, because we weren’t learning along with bree, since she “knew” these things already

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😁 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞𝐬 😁

~ reflection upon big, real life issues - this is so important & was done so well throughout the book!

~ the way that bree carried herself when dealing with closed minded individuals

~ the magic system, especially the rootcraft & it’s connection to african culture

~ scenes with other rootcrafters - this honestly played a huge role in redemption for the book for me. these scenes were the most interesting to me & the ones i enjoyed most 

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😬 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞𝐬 😬

~ as i mentioned, there was a lot of info dumping throughout the book - it made parts of the book overwhelming & led to a lot of confusion, honestly 

~ no real connection to either mmc - i wasn’t rooting for nick or selwyn. sure, nick was kind and went along with bree’s plan & selwyn did change his demeanor some throughout the book, but i didn’t really care who bree was gonna have/pursue feelings for 😅

 

~ there were a lot of side characters that we didn’t learn much about & weren’t super important to the story, to the point that it was too many to keep up with

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i may have let the hype from others influence my preconceived ideas about this book or this book may just not be for me. i’m undecided at this time whether i’ll continue the series or not. i hope that other readers enjoy this book!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Racism and Medical content

knockoffrainbow's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Classism, Cursing, Bullying, Blood, Mental illness, Sexism, Slavery, Colonisation, Death, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Grief, Medical content, Panic attacks/disorders, Pregnancy, Violence, War, Racial slurs, Child death, Misogyny, Racism, and Body horror

Moderate: Child abuse, Confinement, Physical abuse, Rape, Murder, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Vomit, Slavery, Torture, Alcohol, and Transphobia

Minor: Infidelity

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

racheldonna14's review

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

tetrootz's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Death, Blood, Death of parent, and Racial slurs

Moderate: Grief, Homophobia, Medical content, Physical abuse, Slavery, Classism, War, Abandonment, Colonisation, Medical trauma, Panic attacks/disorders, Body horror, Mental illness, Torture, Bullying, Car accident, Gaslighting, Racism, Sexism, Sexual assault, and Xenophobia

Minor: Homophobia, Suicidal thoughts, Acephobia/Arophobia, Police brutality, and Rape

some_random_person_hi's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

Kinda wattpad-y at some points and some characters & characterisations remind me so much of Heroes of Olympus that I wouldn't be surprised if this was originally riordanverse fanfic/ the author is a fan. 
All in all, very gripping once past the first 50 pages -> I binged this. I love the characters so much + the exploration of how historical institutions are hostile to POC (esp in USA) stood out to me. 
Had some flaws (

Sel's monologue at Nick's dad's house just felt like infodumping

  + so many characters they're hard to remember + sometimes the writing just felt clunky) but I greatly enjoyed it so 5 stars it is.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Grief

Moderate: Abandonment, Blood, Death of parent, Gore, Forced institutionalization, Death, Slavery, Bullying, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, War, and Racism

Minor: Misogyny, Murder, Kidnapping, Rape, Alcohol, Car accident, Colonisation, Stalking, Transphobia, Self harm, Confinement, and Torture

Self harm is not in the mental health issues way but the for blood way.

midnightverde's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

5.0

Amazing! There is so much happening in the book and there are so many questions you ask yourself as you’re reading. I absolutely loved this and am eager to read the next books in the series. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Pregnancy, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Blood, Gaslighting, Murder, Racism, Slavery, Colonisation, Emotional abuse, Grief, Classism, Gore, Bullying, Violence, Death, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Mental illness, and Misogyny

Moderate: Infidelity and Rape