Legend
By (Author) Marie Lu
Penguin Random House Children's UK
Penguin Books Ltd
28th April 2025
2nd February 2012
United Kingdom
Children
Fiction
813.6
Short-listed for Isinglass Teen Read Award 2012
Paperback
304
Width 128mm, Height 197mm, Spine 18mm
215g
For all fans of The Hunger Games - the first in an epic dystopian trilogy and a brilliant reimagining of Les Miserables. For all fans of The Hunger Games - an epic YA dystopian romantic thriller Los Angeles, California Republic of America He is Day. The boy who walks in the light. She is June. The girl who seeks her brother's killer. On the run and undercover, they meet by chance. Irresistably drawn together, neither knows the other's past. But Day murdered June's brother. And she has sworn to avenge his death.
If you like The Hunger Games, you'll love this! * Sarah Rees-Brennan, author of The Demon's Lexicon *
A romantic thriller set in a post-apocalyptic world where nothing is what it seems - Legend is impossible to out down and even harder to forget * Kami Garcia, NYT bestselling author of Beautiful Creatures *
Legend doesn't merely survive the hype, it deserves it * New York Times *
Marie Lu's dystopian novel is a 'Legend' in the making * USA Today *
Marie Lu is the author of the New York Times bestselling Legend series. She graduated from the University of Southern California and jumped into the video game industry, working for Disney Interactive Studios as a Flash artist. Now a full-time writer, she spends her spare time reading, drawing, playing Assassin's Creed, and getting stuck in traffic. She lives in Los Angeles, California (see above- traffic), with one husband, one Chihuahua mix, and two Pembroke Welsh corgis. @Marie_Lu, www.marielu.org