Kami Garcia has been riding the train of awesome now that Beautiful
Creatures is a major motion picture.
So needless to say, I was highly anticipating her individual project, Unbreakable
(The Legion #1). I won’t say I was
blown away, but I will say that I felt the same safe familiarity of Beautiful
Creatures. What I mean to say is that it
was a decadent tale of mythology and legacies.
One night Kennedy’s cat runs out of the house, leading
Kennedy on a chase into a small Jesuit cemetery. At the cemetery Kennedy sees a woman,
floating. Nothing seems out of the
ordinary after that, except her cat is acting weird. Then one night Kennedy gets home to her
mother dead. And then her cat attacks
her, trying to steal her breath. When it
almost seems like our heroine is about to be killed off, the Lockhart twins
come galloping to the rescue. Jared and Lukas
confirm that there is a dark world out there, and it is controlling their
lives. They confirm this by letting Kennedy
know that her mother was a descendant of a secret society in charge of keeping
the world safe from a vengeful demon. She,
along with 4 others, protects and guards the world from the dark spirit world threatening
to escape into reality. Those 5 members
have been killed; all that is left are their children (those who have been
selected to up hold a spot in the Legion).
Kennedy must take her mother’s place and help the new Legion members
combat an evil that should have never been stirred.
I really like the characters, especially Priest (I mean he’s
a genius with an awesome music taste.) The
twins are also a good ying-yang team, with clear dysfunction in the
family. Yes, there is the inevitable
love triangle, but it’s so minimal I don’t hate it. The end left me thinking, I have no clue what
will happen in the next installment because the characters are left with
unanswered questions and Kennedy is more or less right back where she started
after her mother initially dies. What I do
know is that I will be eagerly awaiting the next part of this fantastically
dark urban series.
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