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Rebel
by Marie Lu
★★★☆☆ - 3.5 stars
i am healed. this book provided the closure i needed after the ending of Champion. i loved the ending, now all my tears are happy tears!!
as for the actual plot in this, i honestly didn’t care. this book is about Daniel’s little brother, Eden. it IS dual POV, but most of the plot revolves around Eden. i did not necessarily hate Eden, i just thought his chapters were a bit boring. this felt like a repeat of Prodigy but with less action. i am a little disappointed, i would have DNFed, but it’s the last book in the series and i needed a happy ending…
this book is mostly about Eden and Day’s lives in Ross City, Antarctica which uses a Level system to determine one’s privileges. while Daniel is looking into a murderer case as a member of the AIS, Eden is attending drone races to help his friend, Pressa, get some money to help her sick father. but at one of the drone races, Eden finds none other than the con artist Daniel is investigating. their lives overlap and they begin to discover a lot about the Level system. and they learn that it’s a lot more corrupted than it seems.
the action was lacking in this. i kept waiting for something more to happen, but there only ended up being a few exciting scenes. the “last battle” lasted about 2 pages and felt very unfinished. i kept thinking i skipped a few pages. the book already started concluding itself out of nowhere! i was definitely not as invested in this as i thought i’d be, considering this was supposed to be the “grand finale.”
i did, however, enjoy the Daniel and June scenes. they’re not a super memorable book couple, yet, i still felt something when reading their chapters. Marie Lu was always able to sneak some heartfelt quotes in. i was so sad after the way Champion ended, so i’m very pleased with the closure i was able to find in this. that last chapter was perfection! i do prefer Daniel a lot more over June, since i feel he’s a bit more developed, but they work together well and their scenes were so sweet!
Pressa and Eden were also pretty cute, even if they only got a couple scenes together.
Marie Lu’s writing was decent. there was a little repetition that weirded me out, especially in Daniel’s chapters. for some reason he said the word “goddy” so much? what does that even mean? plus, there was a lack of description for some parts and it was hard to picture scenes. but her writing didn’t bother me much, and i still had a good time.
overall, i liked the ending of this book, but the rest of it was not as exciting as the other books in this series. glad to have finished the Legend series, though! it was a fun time.
i am healed. this book provided the closure i needed after the ending of Champion. i loved the ending, now all my tears are happy tears!!
as for the actual plot in this, i honestly didn’t care. this book is about Daniel’s little brother, Eden. it IS dual POV, but most of the plot revolves around Eden. i did not necessarily hate Eden, i just thought his chapters were a bit boring. this felt like a repeat of Prodigy but with less action. i am a little disappointed, i would have DNFed, but it’s the last book in the series and i needed a happy ending…
this book is mostly about Eden and Day’s lives in Ross City, Antarctica which uses a Level system to determine one’s privileges. while Daniel is looking into a murderer case as a member of the AIS, Eden is attending drone races to help his friend, Pressa, get some money to help her sick father. but at one of the drone races, Eden finds none other than the con artist Daniel is investigating. their lives overlap and they begin to discover a lot about the Level system. and they learn that it’s a lot more corrupted than it seems.
the action was lacking in this. i kept waiting for something more to happen, but there only ended up being a few exciting scenes. the “last battle” lasted about 2 pages and felt very unfinished. i kept thinking i skipped a few pages. the book already started concluding itself out of nowhere! i was definitely not as invested in this as i thought i’d be, considering this was supposed to be the “grand finale.”
i did, however, enjoy the Daniel and June scenes. they’re not a super memorable book couple, yet, i still felt something when reading their chapters. Marie Lu was always able to sneak some heartfelt quotes in. i was so sad after the way Champion ended, so i’m very pleased with the closure i was able to find in this. that last chapter was perfection! i do prefer Daniel a lot more over June, since i feel he’s a bit more developed, but they work together well and their scenes were so sweet!
Pressa and Eden were also pretty cute, even if they only got a couple scenes together.
Marie Lu’s writing was decent. there was a little repetition that weirded me out, especially in Daniel’s chapters. for some reason he said the word “goddy” so much? what does that even mean? plus, there was a lack of description for some parts and it was hard to picture scenes. but her writing didn’t bother me much, and i still had a good time.
overall, i liked the ending of this book, but the rest of it was not as exciting as the other books in this series. glad to have finished the Legend series, though! it was a fun time.