jenny✨’s Reviews > Legendborn > Status Update

i'm blown away. bree's just been drawn into the memories of a Black woman from the nineteenth century, and they're talking about colonizer magic built on the blood of slaves and Indigenous peoples.

it's so important, so good, so gripping

THE COVER MAKES SO MUCH SENSE NOW

also the banter in this book is top-notch i'm thriving

HOOOOOOLY i have GOOSEBUMPS GALORE

the initiation ceremony + that character reveal + the solemnity of the oath—all of it has me shook in the best way

OK i already feel myself FALLING into this story 😫

like: bree stumbles on a magic society (rigidly hierarchical and unfairly privileged like so many all-white institutions) that might've had something to do with the death of her mother, and now she's going to fake her way through magical trials to be legendborn...

I'M SO HOOKED.

(the only thing i'm not so hot on is the cliche romance i feel comin)

"We may have experienced a life-threatening demon attack together and you may have saved my complete and total bacon—again, thank you—but this isn't over. I don't know who you think you are, but you can't tell me what to do."

god, i love this girl's fire and tenacity

*quote taken from an uncorrected reader's proof

im sorry, i have a hard time believing that her best friend would be SO insensitive and hurtful (and it’s only 40 pages in...?)

it feels like a plot device to alienate the MC—and if the asshole love interest is the one she turns to, im gonna be PISSED

when will YA fantasy give up the TOTALLY CLICHÉD "beautiful chiseled dark brooding dangerous sharp jaw" love interest intros

already my heart is siinnnggggginggg at this ownvoices story

poking fun of southern white bois, being a teen of colour in a small town, living with overbearing parents... tiny details that make all the difference imo