Originally reviewed at Christa's Hooked on Books 
 Legend is the beginning of a new dystopian series. If you know me at all you know I LOVE dystopia and was so excited when I heard there was a new series coming out this November. There's been so many dystopian novels recently, however, you never know if it's going to be more of the same old, same old. Thankfully Legend was an action packed adventure, with plenty of unique twists and developments. 
 The main thing I really like about Legend was the way the traditional gender roles were reversed. I usually find young adult dystopian fiction centers around a strong female character who is generally poor or disadvantaged by the current society. If there's a love interest, he's usually more well off and more integrated into the system. In this novel, however, it is a male character (Day) who is outcast from society and its the female character (June) who is a soldier for the oppressive government. 
 Even though I enjoyed this book there were still a few problems I had with it. I had a few question about the nature of this society and how it got the way it was. Particularly how did the Republic and the Colonies get divided up? Was it just random chance which side you lived on? And what exactly did the Trials consist of? These questions didn't ruin my overall enjoyment of the book but they were a little distracting. 
 I was also unhappy with a certain design feature within the book. The book alternates point-of-view between June and Day. When it's June's chapters the text is a normal, black font. When it's Day's chapters, however, the font switches to a light gold colour. I found this very distracting and hard to read, and if the story wasn't so good it would have been enough for me to abandon the book all together. My copy is the advanced copy, however, so it's possible it may be different in the finished version. We'll have to wait and see.(* I have been told that the finished copy will have a much darker gold font for Day's chapters. Yay!*) 
 Despite these small issues I can honestly say that in the flooded market of young adult dystopian Legend manages to hold its own. It's filled with action, excitement and some interesting characters. From the moment I picked it up I couldn't put it down! I look forward to seeing where Marie Lu takes this series next.