Legend, perhaps because it was new and fresh, was by far the best I barely hit ‘pause.’ Prodigy made me wilt with too many ‘just wake-up-already-oh-it’s-a-bad-dream’ ramblings, and Champion‘s flip-flopping of who-to-trust-or-not made the eyeballs start getting stuck. Okay, so when there’s a series – and the whole thing is available – undoubtedly, I’ll binge … which doesn’t always make for good digestion. They might have figured out how to say the same names the same way (really?!!) as not to loudly advertise that they are not connected in any way … but obviously, I (again!) seem to expect too much from (careless) audible producers. As for the aural incarnation, Steven Kaplan and Mariel Stern are consistently persuasive as the two teen protagonists alternating viewpoints throughout the three-parter. That Lu has a much-hyped new series, The Young Elites, hitting shelves this fall, will surely add pressure to go celluloid.Ĭall me cynical (why, yes, I am, when it comes to Hollywood!), but before studio execs whitewash another ethnic Asian hero (in this case, hapa Asian Caucasian, although this hero is blond and blue-eyed – as if camera-ready? – albeit with distinct Asian features Lu posts a photo of her inspiration on her website), I figured I had better get reading the original (or, in my case, stick in the ears). While production doesn’t seem to have started just yet, news that Marie Lu‘s bestselling dystopic trilogy is coming to a theater near you keeps resurfacing since CBS Films bought rights to Legend in 2011.
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