Book Review: Legendborn (Legendborn #1) by Tracy Deonn

Hi Cara,

Today on my blog I am reviewing Legendborn by Tracy Deonn.

 

After her mother dies in an accident, sixteen-year-old Bree Matthews wants nothing to do with her family memories or childhood home.

A residential program for bright high schoolers at UNC-Chapel Hill seems like the perfect escape—until Bree witnesses a magical attack her very first night on campus.

A flying demon feeding on human energies.

A secret society of so-called “Legendborn” students that hunt the creatures down.

And a mysterious teenage mage who calls himself a “Merlin” and who attempts—and fails—to wipe Bree’s memory of everything she saw.

The mage’s failure unlocks Bree’s own unique magic and a buried memory with a hidden connection: the night her mother died, another Merlin was at the hospital. Now that Bree knows there’s more to her mother’s death than what’s on the police report, she’ll do whatever it takes to find out the truth, even if that means infiltrating the Legendborn as one of their initiates.

She recruits Nick, a self-exiled Legendborn with his own grudge against the group, and their reluctant partnership pulls them deeper into the society’s secrets—and closer to each other. But when the Legendborn reveal themselves as the descendants of King Arthur’s knights and explain that a magical war is coming, Bree has to decide how far she’ll go for the truth and whether she should use her magic to take the society down—or join the fight.

(Synopsis from Goodreads.com)

 

Legendborn brings an interesting new spin on King Arthur and the round table legend.

Books that focus on secret societies always grab my attention. But by making one of the secret society with a magical connection to Arthur and his round table was a nice twist. Especially as their job is to protect the world from demons.

One of the fascinating elements is showing the racial discrimination in the different levels of society. And how Bree deals with them. It was also interesting to see the history of the African American at the School and the area.

Legendborn has great action scene with demon fights, trails and battles. By having some personal moment in those action scenes kept it interesting. It even brings more drama to those moments.

Bree is the leading lady in Legendborn, she is a complex smart young lady. I liked her as a person and felt her range of grief.

There were certain elements in the story that didn’t surprise me (Romance) but other elements took me by surprised me. As I had an idea in my head what I thought was going to happen. But it didn’t happen and Tracey ending was better.

My Rating for Legendborn is 4 out of 5.

 

Thank you to Netgalley and Simon & Schuster Children’s UK for gifting me an ebook copy for review.

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