Reading Response: Prodigy

            The second book of Marie Lu's Legend series, the book I posted on last week, is Prodigy. As I said last reading response post, Legend is brain candy so that its hard to stop reading once you've started. I finished it on sunday night, then promptly bought the second book, Prodigy.This made me wonder why books now are made into a series. Not long ago, people really only wrote novels and left it at that. Authors put everything they wanted to happen into one book, instead of just drawing out the story over the course of three or more books. Is it because it all didn't fit into one book? Or just because people want to make more money?
            Prodigy is a continuation of June and Day's escape from the Republic. Someone complained about The Knife of Never Letting Go that the whole plot was about the two characters just running and running. Prodigy is starting to feel like that to me, but with more variation. One negative characteristic I find in sequels that I am noticing in Prodigy is that the power of the characters is weakening. Their secrets are revealed, leaving no mystery about them. The reader knows their weaknesses, and there is less of a superior-being quality to them. I believe the Legend series so far has a captivating plot, but I wish it could just be all in one book.

 Reading Log

Prodigy by Marie Lu

8/28/13

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