⇢THE ENDING WAS BITTERSWEET AND BEAUTIFUL. This book is an excellent example of what instant attraction looks like sure, June and Day’s feelings for each other are quickly developed, but they have a realistic depth to them that many books do not. Day and June’s romance is layered, multifaceted, and fraught with moral dilemmas that don’t magically disappear just because they are in LOOOoOOooOvvve. But Champion proved me completely wrong – and I’m SO GLAD it did. When June and Day first met, I thought that their relationship was going to be plagued by the dreaded instalove syndrome that infects so many books in the YA genre. ⇢JUNE AND DAY’S RELATIONSHIP BECAME MORE COMPLEX AND REAL. Not only did the writing improve, but the plot matured into something that stretched beyond the average dystopian novel, subverting many of the more trite and familiar tropes. But Champion was a strong finish to a series that I ended up thoroughly enjoying, years after I first picked it up. Can we just take a moment to appreciate the glow up that this series experienced? I was pretty on the fence about Legend when I initially read it back in high school, so much so that I didn’t even bother with the subsequent books (SHAME ON ME).
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