Antonia Bernardin

The 66th book I read this year was Legendborn, the first book in the Legendborn Cycle, by Tracy Deonn.

A vague summary

After her mum dies in a car accident Bree is angry at the world, even when she escapes her home town to go to an early admissions college program, where high school students can finish their qualifications at college. On her first night there she witnesses something strange and impossible, which she reminds her of something she saw the night her mother died that grief had obscured until now. Bree is determined to find out what this mysterious magic has to do with her mother’s death but before long she’s in over her head, entrenched in a secret society of demon slayers that can be traced back all the way to the knights of the round table.

She signs up to a tournament that helps select who will be a ‘squire’ to the scions of the round table (their descendants who can be called into battle at any moment, possessed by the spirit of their knighted ancestor and imbued with their power). No one who looks like Bree has ever been inducted into this elitist secret society. More than that, Bree is starting to discover she has strange powers of her own, rooted in her own family lineage. Is this the reason her mother died? Did these people hurt because of her powers? Bree is determined to find the answer to these questions but at what cost?

My thoughts

I enjoyed this book but I did find it a little confusing at first because it takes a while for the magic/ the secret society to be explained. It is a little slow in places because there is so much world building that needs to be established. The ending really surprised me though and I’m excited to read the next one, which will hopefully have a faster pace now things are established.

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