BOOK REVIEW: Champion by Marie Lu
Ok, I know I was jonzing for a good Young Adult series. Especially dystopian. Especially after The Hunger Games, and more importantly, especially after The Divergent series finished up. Although I loved what Veronica Roth did with the ending (that most people almost threw themselves off a building for) from a writer’s perspective. Not to give it away just in case you didn’t read it. It was powerful! But this review is about Marie Lu and her final chapter to the Legend series. Too bad she is overshadowed by such powerful other dystopian novels because Legend kicked some series tale. Prodigy as amazing as well, but Champion in my most humble opinion fell just a little short. Not by any fault of Marie’s. It’s just that the story that was initiated in Legend was so original and twisting, and unpredictable that reading Champion made me feel like she ran out of juice . Like a runner giving out just before the finish line. I could see the ending coming and it was just a matter of time until it all came to a flat end. There was a sequence in the middle where Marie tries to tie in some video game technology that reminded me of my Final Fantasy playing days – a tribute to Lu’s history of game making – but that came off more annoying that innovative. I also wanted to see more fighting or action from Day and June with this being the finale and all. But alas, it was not meant to be. Marie did do a great job of bringing things to a close and even tied off the lose ends of Day, his brother and the disease that almost killed everyone. For that, I was grateful. Anyhow, I hope to see this one on the big screen one day, in interest to see how Hollywood transitions it. Maybe they will spruce it up a bit with action elements that keep the persona of Day very cool. Anyway, I give Marie Lu’s finale a strong 3.5/5
all due respect but 3.5??? YOU-ARE-JOKING
people who always try really hard to guess the ending will get it
and no it really wasn’t predictable until about two paragraphs before it happened….and that is called SUSPENSE
Honey this book deserved 5 stars. In this book, Day and June came closer, more action, and it was just the best book so far, frankly. This book is another Hunger Games or Divergent, but it has a better ending than Divergent-I mean there wasn’t really a flow to follow while I read the story, so the only part that made me wake up when I was dozing off was the part where I read “…How to live without her ” , and then I was like FINALLY some action!
Much respect to your opinion. But the issue I had with the book – as most series – is that the books are compared to the other ones in the series. Legend was genius. Such an original pose, along with the brilliance of June and the cunning sophistication of Day. What a great mix. Then the loss of both character’s family members. There was a lot to enjoy. Then Prodigy played on that even further, with the Patriots and such. But Champion was just the weakest of the three. Not a bad book at al, just not as good – to me. Thanks for commenting. Also, I agree that Allegiant was sloooowwwww. But that ending as powerful – and I didn’t see it coming. I would have loved for it to be different, but the way she (Roth) did it really felt heavy.