Legendborn
Filled with mystery and an intriguingly rich magic system, Tracy Deonn’s YA contemporary fantasy Legendborn offers the dark allure of City of Bones with a modern-day twist on a classic legend and a lot of Southern Black Girl Magic. After her mother dies in an accident, sixteen-year-old Bree Matthews wants nothing to do with her family memories or childhood home. A residential program for bright high schoolers at UNC–Chapel Hill seems like the perfect escape—until Bree witnesses a magical attack her very first night on campus. A flying demon feeding on human energies. A secret society of so called “Legendborn” students that hunt the creatures down. And a mysterious teenage mage who calls himself a “Merlin” and who attempts—and fails—to wipe Bree’s memory of everything she saw. The mage’s failure unlocks Bree’s own unique magic and a buried memory with a hidden connection: the night her mother died, another Merlin was at the hospital. Now that Bree knows there’s more to her mother’s death than what’s on the police report, she’ll do whatever it takes to find out the truth, even if that means infiltrating the Legendborn as one of their initiates. She recruits Nick, a self-exiled Legendborn with his own grudge against the group, and their reluctant partnership pulls them deeper into the society’s secrets—and closer to each other. But when the Legendborn reveal themselves as the descendants of King Arthur’s knights and explain that a magical war is coming, Bree has to decide how far she’ll go for the truth and whether she should use her magic to take the society down—or join the fight.
Reviews
mar @thatprettystar
Venus ☆@starsofvenus
millena@versionsofmi
big ab@snapitsabbey
Kirsten Kim@kirstenkim
Mira <3@siyamira
Rebecca Hurd@becca2bz
Rebecca Hurd@becca2bz
Anna @ann_omalia
ploral@ploral
ash@twilitash
Bria@ladspter
Nik ✨@nixter
Lauren R@lauren24
arwen@corienrielle
Jordan@jrstos
Hanna Rybchynska@hannarbc
Kirsten Simkiss@vermidian
abby .˚。⋆ ༊ .˚。⋆@abbybereading
Luke Harkness@lukesblog1
Bella Baxter@bellhorebooks
Sarah Sammis@pussreboots
james@fantasy
britt@bbeenreading
Highlights
Jordan@jrstos
Page 661
fc ♡@fuzzyreads
fc ♡@fuzzyreads
fc ♡@fuzzyreads
fc ♡@fuzzyreads
fc ♡@fuzzyreads
(Bre)anne✨@breanne
(Bre)anne✨@breanne
Izaac Richards@izaacr
Page 378
Alexa Jade@notajadedreader
Page 316
Alexa Jade@notajadedreader
Page 229
Alexa Jade@notajadedreader
Page 13
sofia@sofiasnflwr
Page 348
sofia@sofiasnflwr
Page 192
Souhaila@souha
Page 432
Souhaila@souha
Page 390
Souhaila@souha
Page 302
Souhaila@souha
Page 80
Souhaila@souha
Page 14
Souhaila@souha
Page 11
Souhaila@souha
Page 2
Angelique ✨@reading_inbloom
Page 315
Angelique ✨@reading_inbloom
Hayli Woodson@salem_trials13
Page 80