Legendborn
By TRACY DEONN
(Spoiler free )
My honest review
I loved this book and would rate it a 9/10 and here’s why
Age recommended : 12+
It’s about 16 year old bree Mathews after she recently lost her mother in a car accident she wants to escape her home town so she accepts an place at a  residential program for bright high schoolers with her best friend Alice Chen .
On her first she witness a flying demon feeding off human energies and find out of a secret society called the legendborn and a mage who class himself a ‘merlin’ who attemptes and fails to wipe her memory of what happened
His failure unlocks a hidden memory from the night her mother died and her magic . Now she is willing to do whatever she needs to find out what really happened that night
This is a fantasy YA novel following the story of bree Mathews a young woman of colour story of grief and magic and some of the racial discrimination she faces in joining the order
As a mixed race female who has when though similar experiences to bree with grief and discrimination ( besides the whole magic part ) it was lovely to see character who I could relate to
The order is also based on arthurian legend and the order of the 12 knights and their descendants and root craft
Also there are queer Poc characters and there is also a Non binary character who goes by they/them pronouns and the characters don’t make a big deal about any of the other LGBTQIA characters and it’s not treated as a forbidden secret
I believe the next book will also be called BLOOMARKED and this is to be a trilogy the second book should be released around early 2022
This book will Always hold a place in my heart
