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Legendborn by Tracy Deonn
After her mother’s death, Bree runs away to a high school college program and quickly encounters a mysterious world filled with magic, demons and the people who fight them. In a whirlwind of this new world, Bree quickly discovers this world has been around her for longer than she ever expected.
💫 Atmospheric 🎂 Coming of Age 📖 Couldn't Put It Down 🏫 Dark Academia
- Genre: Contemporary, Fantasy, Retelling
Book Review
magical, angry, beautiful, Arthurian, compelling
To say this book met my expectations for how awesome it is would be an understatement. This book was incredible, and it is important. The way that Deonn threw in micro and macroaggressions into this story was so seamless. It really makes you feel exactly why they can hurt so much, and exactly how casually some people throw them out. But she does it in a way that the story remains fun and easy to read. Bree is a badass, and this magical world of the Legendborn is interesting and action packed. But considering it is a world within our own world, it is built on white supremacy. And just like any person from a marginalized group, you are not allowed to forget that. If only while reading.
What is truly the most remarkable thing about this book is that she manages to tackle so many important topics. It isn’t just recognizing aggressions, but it is also having a main character in therapy. It is also casually having a non—binary character in the order. It is nodding to the fact that no one knows everything about intersectionality, and we can all learn, no matter who we are. It is tackling dark academia, and not holding these historically problematic universities and secret societies on a pedestal. It is everything. And it doesn’t forget to make you laugh.
Legendborn is incredible, and it is important. It is a story based on Arthurian Legend, with some major dark academia vibes thrown in that tackles so many important topics, but doesn’t forget to take you on an adventure that will make you laugh.
