I was left wondering if the amazing Day and genius June could actually manage to pull it off. They help Day but they have their own request, and it's a good one. I really enjoyed that part of the story and their involvement brought us more interesting plot twists. Here we get to know them a lot better, what they do, why they do it and where they get their resources for. The Patriots are a great addition, they were present in the first book near the end but never really there. I came to understand them a lot more as characters, came to appreciate June more and some of the decisions she made in the first book that I didn't get in book one. I felt I got to know both Day and June so much better in this book. The pace doesn't let up, but where I felt the first book put action above character development, this one doesn't disappoint with either.

This books brings us the fast-paced action that we have come to expect from Marie Lu.

June knows that to help day she will need to track them down and so that's what they do, heading to the military city of Las Vegas in order to ask for their help. Day's injured leg has left him a liability that they aren't willing to let slow them down. Prodigy picks up where Legend left off, Day and June have managed to escape from the Republic but they have been abandoned by the Patriots. But can they trust them or have they unwittingly become pawns in the most terrifying of political games? Desperate for help, they turn to the Patriots - a vigilante rebel group sworn to bring down the Republic. June is now the Republic's most wanted traitor. Day is believed dead having lost his own brother to an execution squad who thought they were assassinating him. Injured and on the run, it has been seven days since June and Day barely escaped Los Angeles and the Republic with their lives.

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