I didn't enjoy this book as much as I thought I would. Currently I am at a process where I read one new book, then I reread an old one, then a new one again, and so on. So when I picked "Legacy" I was pretty excited, because I remembered how much I had liked it the first time I read it! Well this time, I couldn't finish it. I took me over a month to finally finish the book and I was really struggling in the whole process, to they point that I was afraid that I had fell into a reading slump!

One thing that really gave me trouble was the characters. The King (Alera's father) was incredibly weak and I don't know how he managed to remain king all these years! Then, London (Alera's personal guard) was very cocky and thought he knew everything, which may be true because he was captured in the enemy kingdom, but there's no need to be so sarcastic! You have to show some respect to your superiors every once in a while! Alera was mostly okay, but there were times I thought she was very immature and thought that the worst that can happen to one person, is marry someone they don't like. Which to be honest, is not entirely true, because there were many times she was supposedly confused by Steldor's (her betrothed) actions! And please, don't get me started on Steldor, he's absolutely hideous! My least favourite character of the whole book!

Another thing that kind of threw me off was the writing. I understand that the first time I read it that I was younger and maybe that was why I hadn't picked up on it, but it was really tiring at times. There were a lot of descriptions of everything and everyone and sometimes I felt like everything was moving extremely slow.

With that being said, I don't really know if I am going to reread the other two books in the series. I am being a bit reluctant to pick them up, because I didn't really go well with the first one. I know for sure that I am going to reread them one day, but not right after the book I'm reading right now, because I don't want to feel like not reading again.