He is Day, the boy who walks in the light.
She is June, the girl who seeks her brother's killer.
On the run and undercover, they meet by chance. Irresistibly drawn together neither knows the other's past. But Day murdered June's brother and she has sworn to avenge his death...
While I enjoyed Marie Lu's dystopian tale, I could have done without the smoochies. It just read like this: "Oh I find you attractive, now I must save youuuuu!". I know I'm a grinch, but Lu had developed more than enough to bind Day and June together. Without the romance there would have been a far more interesting dynamic between the two of them and how they represent the same ideals whilst having completely different backgrounds.
Other than that one disappointment, I was astounded and fascinated with the world that Lu had created. Maybe I haven't had my share of Dystopian novels yet, so I'm still pretty amazed that writers can come up with all these different post-apocalyptic situations. I'm not surprised that the film rights have already been snapped up.
I'm still interested to see how Lu will develop her characters, and expand the world outside the Republic, when book two in the planned trilogy, Prodigy, is released at the end of the month.
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