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A review by lawbooks600
Legacy by Gemma Malley
adventurous
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
Representation: N/A
Score: Six points out of ten.
That's it. I finished The Declaration Trilogy. Here's a recap: I read The Declaration, the first in the series, one year ago, but it ultimately disappointed me. One year later, I read the second instalment, The Resistance, but that underwhelmed me. I picked up the final part, The Legacy, hoping it would be an improvement over The Declaration and The Resistance. It wasn't.
It starts (more like continues) with two new characters, Jude and Sheila who lead The Underground while Peter and Anna hide in Scotland. In Pincent Pharma, a character tells Richard Pincent that Longevity failed because a virus killed someone. Soon, the virus spreads into an epidemic, infecting and killing hundreds more people, leading them to question Longevity. It doesn't work as promised anymore. It can't make one immortal or reverse aging, so what's the point of taking it? The Legacy is the best out of the three, but the author still could improve it. Like The Resistance, the characters are boring and hard for me to connect or relate to them. The pacing in book three was as atrocious as the previous two as the first 200 pages had nothing much happening in them and only in the last 80 pages did something happen. At least the concluding pages and the epilogue where Longevity is long gone and the world returned to normal finished The Legacy on a high note.
Score: Six points out of ten.
That's it. I finished The Declaration Trilogy. Here's a recap: I read The Declaration, the first in the series, one year ago, but it ultimately disappointed me. One year later, I read the second instalment, The Resistance, but that underwhelmed me. I picked up the final part, The Legacy, hoping it would be an improvement over The Declaration and The Resistance. It wasn't.
It starts (more like continues) with two new characters, Jude and Sheila who lead The Underground while Peter and Anna hide in Scotland. In Pincent Pharma, a character tells Richard Pincent that Longevity failed because a virus killed someone. Soon, the virus spreads into an epidemic, infecting and killing hundreds more people, leading them to question Longevity. It doesn't work as promised anymore. It can't make one immortal or reverse aging, so what's the point of taking it? The Legacy is the best out of the three, but the author still could improve it. Like The Resistance, the characters are boring and hard for me to connect or relate to them. The pacing in book three was as atrocious as the previous two as the first 200 pages had nothing much happening in them and only in the last 80 pages did something happen. At least the concluding pages and the epilogue where Longevity is long gone and the world returned to normal finished The Legacy on a high note.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death and Pandemic/Epidemic
Full trigger warnings: Death of a person, pandemic mentioned