Legend
by Barry Maher

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Book Review: Imaginative and worth a read
Summary: 4 Stars

The post-fall-of-civilization world that Maher envisions is inventive and yet pretty believable. Society has become stratified and stagnant, with many of its residents on the bare edge of survival. The remnants of civilization are in tatters and barely functioning, victims of entropy with no one to maintain them.

Against this backdrop, Maher's story follows two heroes-to-be, Martin and Gena. I thought that these characters, along with most others in the novel, were pretty well written. Finding themselves swept up by events not of their own making, the protagonists react just as you or I might - to a point. It is their very believability that made it difficult for me to buy into their heroic behavior as the story progressed.

Martin passes certain tests that no one else can, but how? Somehow he simply manages to do so where any other person would fail. Where does this strength come from? It's written as if he virtually walked through his ordeals, and we get no explanation other than that. As for Gena, a girl who grew up alone in the most vicious and cutthroat environment possible, she somehow decides in the end to do the right thing by Martin when she has shown nothing but contempt for all the other characters in the story. Where does this noble impulse come from?

These unanswered questions left me with a hint of disappointment precisely because Legend is such a well-written story. I would definitely recommend it, but can't quite give it five stars.

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• Subjects > Literature & Fiction
• Science Fiction & Fantasy > Fantasy
• Science Fiction > Adventure