A little info on CHAMPION:
Champion is the third and final book in the LEGEND series by Marie Lu. If you haven't read LEGEND then please read no further and get yourself a copy! The Booktube is raving about Legend.
I am not doing a no spoiler section because I have very little time!
DISCUSSION!
Welcome to those of you have read Champion or are feeling a little bit cheeky.
First of all, let's talk about the ending because I think that's what most people came here for!
I've recently read a few final books and all of them have ended like this. Some of you know which book I am talking about, others will not but maybe you'll get there some day when you're reading a classic whilst your children run about and you will have a dramatic realisation of which book I was talking about. Or not. It's cool either way.
The ending was cruel and I was so upset because after all Day and June'd been through it ended that way. He can't remember all the fantastic amazing things he did, the people he loved and the cause he fought for.
Some people think that June was being self-sacrificial by letting Day live without knowing her, I agree in part although I believe that it would be tremendously difficult for her to be around him and remember their time together and have such strong feelings that she can't express. Like if I met...hmmm... Percy Jackson, I would know so much about him and all his greatest adventures and triumphs but he wouldn't know the first thing about me. It would urt so much to be around him. I'm glad she walked away
Though I often wonder why Eden or somebody hasn't told him who the paper clip ring was from since he still wears it ten years later.
Most of this book I didn't really like Day as much as I have done because at the beginning he cheats on June and nothing really good happens between them. I began to ship Janden more and more because Day was just irritating to me.
I know that June does cheat on Day with Anden in the middle somewhere but it seemed a lot more meaningful because they're friends and some random person she met in a bar.
Antarctica sounds really cool, I think I'd only like to live there for a year or so because eventually I'd be so annoyed with the point system (Like in Extras by Scott Westerfeld). There must be land there now which is an interesting development in 140 years. I really want to know what England is like, I'm concerned for my country!
There was a lot of politics in this one and a lot less street action and I really missed that. The state of the Republic was just so upsetting that I wasn't really enjoying it.
One of my favourite parts was when Thomas was talking about Metias, I was so engaged in that scene. I wish we had seen more of Metias he sounded so cool and clever. I'd like to have heard about their parents too since that was set up in Legend but it didn't really live up to anything. ( I know it was resolved but still)
The parents' deaths didn't seem to affect June as I would've imagined it to, though they didn't die very recently. The way parental deaths is handled by other characters in other books was very different to June's experiences. I'm not sure if it was better or worse. It helped her become the prodigy, I think.
Also, did you notice the gunshot in the rose on the cover, we were warned. The evidence was right there in front of us, how upsetting.
Commander Jameson just wants shit to go down. I don't have many feelings on her.
See ya later!
-E
