As I usually do for trilogies, I read all three books in Marie Lu's Legend trilogy in one sitting. I believe doing so is the only way to truly appreciate the way the story flows, and this trilogy is no exception. Champion is a very good ending for this, one of my top ten YA trilogies. I often cursed Ms. Lu for not making June and Day's relationship go the way I wanted it to, and I did not much like Day's terminal diagnosis, but by the time I finished I knew it was perfect.
The fate of the Republic and the Colonies was satisfactorily concluded, and the story clearly emphasized the flaws in both types of governments...and also how the grass isn't always greener on the other side of the quarantine zone. I was slightly skeptical about Day's plan to rally the citizens of the Republic; both the nature of humans and the vagueness of his plan make me think that things probably wouldn't work the way it did, but I forgave this weakness. My only other complaint is a scene in which Thomas, the killer of June's brother, gives June is whole confession of what happened the night of the murder. People simply do not talk that way. The dialogue was actually so painfully wrong I had to skip it. I got the gist, but I have a problem when characters speak in such a way that it becomes totally unbelievable. So while that was an issue, it only happened once. I'm surprised, actually, that Ms. Lu would have written something that way; her writing is at such a caliber that I can't believe she would have not felt strange writing in that way.
These small issues aside, I was happy with the conclusion to the story. My heart hurt for awhile reading it, but it ended with hope. As much as I loved their story, I appreciated that the love story was not the most central part of it.
In short, I believe that any reader and fan of Legend will not be disappointed by this conclusion.
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