bandherbooks's Reviews (3.65k)

Marietta decides to leave her small Kentucky town behind to avoid the pitfall of young, unwed pregnancy that befell most of her peers. Despite her best intentions, Marietta (name changed to Taylor) soon finds herself saddled with a three year old girl she names Turtle and the need to settle down somewhere and put down roots. A lovely, lyrical tale of Arizona, family, and friendship. Quite lovely.

Quickly paced with two distinguished and wholly identifiable POVs, Champion brings the Legend Trilogy to a close. Wholly satisfying, with very plausible world building, Lu does a marevlous job keeping the reader on his/her toes while Day and June try to struggle out what side of the struggle between the Republic and the Colonies they will land on. This book was like a breath of fresh air after the stagnant Allegiant.

Book 2 of this series made me super glad I stuck with it. Elisa is newly crowned queen, but is struggling to gain power and respect as ruler of a land she is not from. More information surfaces about her fate as the bearer of the god stone and another adventure awaits her.

The action in book 2 is much more riveting, along with the love story (much more plausible) than book 1. Gone are the terrible body issues (thankfully) although it was a bit weird they were such a focus in the first go around and now they are merely an afterthought. Ah well.

While on their honeymoon Will rehashes his POV for every steamy/lovey moment he and Lake shared since the beginning of their relationship. If you are into this series, go ahead and read, but nothing new really added to this story. This story reminds me of fan-fiction, but written by the author.