Book Review: Legendborn by Tracy Deonn

Legendborn by Tracy Deonn
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Holy hell. This book blew me away. I read this book with very low expectations like I always do with books, and I came out of this book with such awe and love for this book that I want book two to come out already. I fell in love with this book, the world, the characters. Each of them took my breath away, and I’m now a huge fan of Tracy Deonn.

This book is about a girl named Bree Matthews who had lost her mother in a car accident. She was mesmered by a Merlin from the Order of the Round Table to forget about what she knows, but the problem is, she can’t. She can’t stop thinking about that night, even when she created After-Bree and kept her anger and grief inside. When she and her best friend Alice go to college at UNC-Chapel Hill, that’s when she finds out about the world of the Legendborn and the Order of the Round Table.

She meets Selwyn Kane at a party she really didn’t want to be in and he tried to memser her, but she shook it off somehow and saw him and another girl fight an insel. Then she was probation because of what happened, and she was assigned a Peer student named Nick Davis-who turns out used to be part of the Order because he was the Scion of Arthur, and she told him about her mother, and she and Nick went to the Order so she can be a page and find out what happened to her mother, along with Nick coming back to take his spot back in the Scions.

The trials was tough for Bree and the others, but she did encounter racism in the Order, and nearly got killed if it wasn’t for the healer, William, whom I love SO SO MUCH. There, she finds out about what happens to her mother, and also she meets up with the therapist, Patricia, who works in rootcraft, and reveals to Bree that she can also do rootcraft, but it turns out, once she added a medium and figured out what really happened to her mother and the women in her family, she didn’t want to talk to anyone about them, until the gala night.

Bree went there to say goodbye to Nick and the others, instead Nick chose her to be his squire. Every white person in the room was outraged, and Nick’s father thought that Nick was joking and even had his Kingsmage mesmer her and take her to talk to his father. I really hate Nick’s father, and he revealed everything he was doing-opening up Gates to let the shadowborn in, to awaken Nick so he can take up Excalibur and start Calmann.

All except it didn’t go that way.

Instead, after walking through the past and meeting Vera, Bree took Excalibur and it turns out she’s the Scion of Arthur, not Nick. After the shadowborn was destroyed, Bree told the group everything (after she rested up) and then Sel tells her that they took Nick. I’m now wondering what happens now after she finds out about Nick, but I guess we’ll find out in the next book, which is coming out soon.

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