Title: Legend (Legend, #1)
Author: Marie Lu
Year: 2011
Publisher: Putnam Juvenile
Pages: 305
In the words of a different dystopian novel, doubleplusungood. Flaws include flat characters, continuity errors and omissions, action and plot points unbelievable even within this world's rules, sudden halts for staring at the beloved while bullets whiz past, and a peculiar obsession with silver buttons.
Instead of enumerating the problems with specific spoiler examples, though, I'll instead share the reading strategy that worked best for me: Think of this as a comic book. In comic books, people can indeed drop several stories or get "deep gash"es without death or deformity. Characters' actions occur because they do, and not necessarily in ways that are consistent with their personalities. The bad guys are caricatures, and stupid. However, the good guys' stupidity rarely registers as a problem, even if they're 15 years old and each thinks the other is bee-yoo-ti-ful. Plus, every silver button gets its own sparkly neoflect.
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