Legend By Marie Lu

            This review contain some spoilers! In the book, Legend by Marie Lu there is a Republic soldier named June who is the only person who has gotten the best score on the trails, the test everyone has to take to determine their future. When someone takes these trails in the Republic they can either pass and join the military or fail and go to a labor camp where they are never seen again. Since June had passed her trial she joined the military with her brother, Metias who had also passed the trial. There is also a boy named Day who failed his trials and has committed various crimes against the Republic making himself the Republic's most wanted criminal. Even though Day is a wanted criminal he has done the wrong things for the right reasons like on one night where Day needs medication for his sick brother so he sneaks into a hospital and tries to steal medication for his brother and threatens the nurses. Once he realizes he cannot get hold of the medication he makes a run out of the hospital and throws a knife at Metias who was at the hospital and escapes through the tunnels under the hospital. When June hears this news and about Metias' death she is furious and is sent on a mission to find and capture Day. When June goes on this mission she finds day without knowing it and turns him in to the Republic. Then while Day is in a cell waiting for his execution date June finds that the Republic isn't what she thought it was all of these years and also learns that they are hiding many things from her which makes her question if the Republic are the ones to trust.
              I connect this book to real life and the world because sometimes people can trick or make you believe you are doing the right thing but in reality you could be doing something completely wrong. This book also reminds me of real life because doing good in real life means you have to be smart or have some sort of talent to make you different to be successful. If you are not smarter have something that makes you different than most people it will be hard to survive in the real world like in this book. Day failed his trial so now his life is really hard because he lives on the streets and struggles to survive while June passed her trial and live in a nice area and has a job in the military. I would reccomend this book to anyone that likes a little bit of mystery and action or just a good book to read. I think anyone could enjoy this book because it has a little bit of everything which makes it very interesting and fun to read.