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A review by michela_wilson
Legendborn by Tracy Deonn
adventurous
dark
hopeful
tense
fast-paced
5.0
I think I just found a new favorite fantasy book and I couldn’t be more excited!
Legendborn follows Bree Matthews who goes to UNC following her mother’s death. Everything seems normal until she can see students fighting demons no one else can see and it seems these students may be involved in her mother’s death.
Wow wow wow, this book was everything I wanted it to be and more! The magic system and world-building are perfect. It is so hard to write a magic system that doesn’t take away from character development and the plot but Tracy Deonn does it perfectly! Every piece of world-building adds to Bree’s story and arc while still building a fascinating world of magic.
The depiction of grief was perfect and you can tell that Deonn was someone who experienced exactly what Bree experienced in this book. I have never read a book that captured the raw and unfiltered emotions that come from losing someone so close to you and I am so happy to have a book that captured those feelings so beautifully.
Now as someone from the Carolina’s you know I have to talk about the setting and, oh my word, does this capture southern living perfectly. Oftentimes you either get a highly romanticized depiction of the South or you get the “all southerns are dumb” depiction and I am so glad that wasn’t the case with Legendborn! I have never read a book that felt exactly like home with the good, bad, and the ugly represented.
All in all, this is one of my new favorite fantasy books and I cannot wait to dive into Bloodmarked soon!
Legendborn follows Bree Matthews who goes to UNC following her mother’s death. Everything seems normal until she can see students fighting demons no one else can see and it seems these students may be involved in her mother’s death.
Wow wow wow, this book was everything I wanted it to be and more! The magic system and world-building are perfect. It is so hard to write a magic system that doesn’t take away from character development and the plot but Tracy Deonn does it perfectly! Every piece of world-building adds to Bree’s story and arc while still building a fascinating world of magic.
The depiction of grief was perfect and you can tell that Deonn was someone who experienced exactly what Bree experienced in this book. I have never read a book that captured the raw and unfiltered emotions that come from losing someone so close to you and I am so happy to have a book that captured those feelings so beautifully.
Now as someone from the Carolina’s you know I have to talk about the setting and, oh my word, does this capture southern living perfectly. Oftentimes you either get a highly romanticized depiction of the South or you get the “all southerns are dumb” depiction and I am so glad that wasn’t the case with Legendborn! I have never read a book that felt exactly like home with the good, bad, and the ugly represented.
All in all, this is one of my new favorite fantasy books and I cannot wait to dive into Bloodmarked soon!