Brief Summary Of 'The Legend' By Marie Lu

My book report is going to be on the book Legend. The author is Marie Lu and is best seller in new york. It was Published on November 29, 2011 in the U.S and in the U.K on February 2012. The genre is a young adult fiction, and has 305 pages. The publisher is Putnam Juvenile. The book has interesting characters and has a very interesting plot. The Legend Marie Lu fiction provides how the relationship between a famous criminal and a prodigious detective might translate into a more modern story.
Legend is about a boy and a girl who give their own points of view. The boy in the book is named Day he is one of the kids who are seeking for survival, and is a famous criminal. The second character is a girl named June she is a detective and she tries
to find Day. Day tries to hide from the government because he is a wanted criminal and they are looking for him. For June she is a very good detective but is a troublemaker at school and is very smart she is the only one who passed her trial twice as a perfect score. The book takes place in L.A.. The tension’s really high because there isn't one spot where they can kick their feet up and relax they are always on the look out or running it's a life or death matter.
Day is the more interesting character for sure but I also like June.
Day lives in the streets but he used to live in a house but it was still very little and old. He ran away because if he stayed with his family they would find him and Day and his family would be in trouble. He found a little helper the first week he ran away her name is Tess she was little when he found her but now she isn't as shy as the first time they met and she was very helpful for him and helps him with everything like to steal and make money and find food. Day also cares about her a lot at first he didn't like her but he found out he couldn't live without her so he treated her like a sister. June is the detective and she figured out that Day was the person who killed his brother. June knew Day was a criminal but he has never killed someone before on his past crimes. She figured out Day was the one who killed her brother Metias. Now she is on the hunt to hunt down Day and capture him and torture him for killing her brother. Her exact words were “I will trick you and deceive you, lie, cheat, and steal to find you, tempt you out of your hiding place, and chase you until you have nowhere else to run”(Lu pg45). She is determined to find day no matter What it takes to find
him.
Days family was going through the plague inspection by the soldiers and if you got the x you are infected and was quarantined but they got a special x because a line ran through the middle so he thought if he could steal some pills or medicine from the hospital it could help his family. so when he tried to take the medicine from the hospital there wasn't any so he had to escape while everybody else's gun was pointing at him but he had a guy with a knife by his neck real close but didn't dare to hurt him so he let go and the alarm went off and he was trapped he broke through a window and it was a few stories high he knew how to land but it was really painful with all he can he ran and that is where metias found Day trying to run he was going to shoot day but before he can do that Day threw his last knife he had and it went right through metias chest. When June was at her home Thomas another person who was close to her came to her door and told her metias was dead and that's where she needed to see him they hurried to the hospital and commander Jameson was there and told her all about what happened she knew they didn't find day and the second she knew it was day she got furious. it was rumored that Day could climb a few stories of building in a few seconds and she knew it would be day becauses if he could land that who else could it have been. She dressed up as one of the the poor to find day. She went to a skiz fight and day and tess were there to and when June won the fight the gamblers wanted more but she got hit by a knife and a boy and a girl got her out of there but one thing that June doesn't know is that the boy is Day but she doesn't notice that Day is right in front of her because they don't know how Day looks. Al they know is that boy is a male. They both also like each other and she knows that the girl's name is Tess but all she doesn't know is the boy's name.
In conclusion this book is a very good book i recommend this book because some of the parts actually made me cry. You will get into the book and won't stop reading and leaves you wanting to read more. They both wanted revenge, honor, and freedom. Day wanted freedom and June wanted revenge from day for killing her brother. There was also betrayal from june because when she figured that day was with her all along she turned him in with the authorities.