Legend

Content Ratings

Moderate Romance

June and Day's mutual attraction develops quickly and is central to the novel's emotional energy; their growing romantic feelings and the tension between attraction and conflicting loyalties create sustained romantic suspense.

Moderate Themes

The novel explores government propaganda, class-based oppression enforced through military violence, the manipulation of young people into service of an unjust state, and the cost of questioning what one has been taught to believe.

Moderate Violence

Military combat, executions, street violence, and the deaths of significant characters including a family member are depicted with the intensity appropriate to the genre; the Republic's brutality toward its poor citizens is a recurring backdrop.

Synopsis

In a future military dictatorship that has divided North America into warring nations, fifteen-year-old June is the Republic's most decorated soldier prodigy, while Day is its most wanted criminalâ€”and when June is sent to hunt Day for a crime he may not have committed, their collision changes both their lives. A fast-paced dual-perspective YA dystopian thriller driven by sharp action and growing romantic tension. The first book of a trilogy.