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Prodigy

Written by Marie Lu

Narrated by Steven Kaplan and Mariel Stern

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The second book in Marie Lu's New York Times bestselling LEGEND trilogy-perfect for fans of THE HUNGER GAMES and DIVERGENT!

June and Day arrive in Vegas just as the unthinkable happens: the Elector Primo dies, and his son Anden takes his place. With the Republic edging closer to chaos, the two join a group of Patriot rebels eager to help Day rescue his brother and offer passage to the Colonies. They have only one request-June and Day must assassinate the new Elector.

It's their chance to change the nation, to give voice to a people silenced for too long.

But as June realizes this Elector is nothing like his father, she's haunted by the choice ahead. What if Anden is a new beginning? What if revolution must be more than loss and vengeance, anger and blood-what if the Patriots are wrong?

In this highly-anticipated sequel to the New York Times bestseller Legend, Lu delivers a breathtaking thriller with high stakes and cinematic action. 

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Release dateJan 8, 2013
ISBN9781101577738
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Prodigy
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Marie Lu

Marie Lu is the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of the Legend series, The Young Elites trilogy, the Warcross series, the Skyhunter series, Batman: Nightwalker, and The Kingdom of Back. She graduated from the University of Southern California and jumped into the video game industry, where she worked as an artist. A full-time writer, she spends her spare hours reading, drawing, playing games, and getting stuck in traffic. She lives in the traffic-jam capital, Los Angeles, with her illustrator/author husband, Primo Gallanosa, and their son.

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    The narrators did a great job with both June and Day’s characters. The story was action packed and a great continuation of the first in the series!
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I first read this as I was finishing high school, and reading it now after quitting a gig in corporate America, it’s hitting in similar ways. Really strong and clear message. It’s obviously about the education system, but easy to apply to my current situation and general disdain towards conventional success in the workplace.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Hans Giebenrath, son of a respectable but unexceptional father, is a "prodigy". Fast tracked - for the glory of his school, family and town- to the intensive hothouse of a theological college, he realises what he is missing. His innocent youthful pursuits- fishing, keeping rabbits- have all been curtailed so he can devote himself to his Greek and Latin. Friendships are firmly quashed if thosse friends are deemed unsuitable.Hans slides into a depression for which, it seems, thee is no cure. How can such a sdand-out student join the lower echelons of society?Superb.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Translation of the german original Unterm Rad this novel dwells with the problems of an opressive education dictated by an unbridled competition, fomented by parents, teatchers, and the community at large, that results in the destruction of the happiness, and ultimately the life, of a promising and bright youth.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Young Hans Giebenrath is a gifted child. When the state tests show him to have the second highest score in the country, he earns entrance to a monastery school and becomes the pride of his small farm town. It also earns him a short vacation, which he plans to spend fishing and walking in the beautiful forests. But each day finds his time being taken up by different tutors who wish him to study so he’ll be ahead of the other students when classes begin. Soon all the hours of his day are used up and his leisure is gone. At the highly regimented school, he has trouble fitting in. He is no longer special like he was in his village. He lacks social skills, so when one of the students, a flamboyant poet, befriends him, he finds himself giddily obsessed and his studies suffer. Eventually he has a breakdown and falls so far behind he is sent home. This is a permanent banishment; no student sent home ever comes back. Suddenly, for the first time, he is at loose ends; there are no lessons to learn, books to read, or tests to prepare for. For the first time, he actually has choices. Can Hans learn to live happily without a highly structured life? While this book was written in 1906, I see the same thing still happening to gifted kids today (and regular kids whose parents want them to be gifted); they are given so many classes and structured activities that they have no time for play, socialization, or imagination. While most survive it okay, I can’t believe it’s the best way to raise a child.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    In Beneath the Wheel, Hesse creates a portrait of a life brought to devastation by the negative effects of institutionalized learning. The apex of this devastation is beautifully rendered with the rich imagery anchored in nature and melancholy that is typical of his writing. Though a good novel, it falls short of Hesse's best work. Themes that merely incubate here are executed with far greater depth in Narcissus and Goldmund, as well as in The Glass Bead Game. Having read those works, this novel provided good context for Hesse's development as a storyteller.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    It is worth reading this alongside Hesse's collection of short stories gathered under the title 'Autobiographical Writings'. Hesse's real academic career was quite a train-wreck, and his recollection of the very short conversation he had with his rather severe Grandfather about it is priceless. On another note, I'm not sure I've ever read such a powerful description of life becoming (slipping into) death; all the more effective for the obliquity and the unexpectedness of the moment. What's more, with just a very few words Hesse captures that strange fleeting period preceding the arrival of news of a death. When I worked with traffic police years ago they would talk about how in the middle of the night they'd find themselves carrying but not yet delivering the news of a death, and the sense that for a little while someone still slept in their beds undisturbed; their loved ones, children, partners or parents both still alive and dead at the same time. This isn't perhaps Hesse's major work, but there is a beautiful light touch to the writing, a sense of restrained power in this story simply told. Recommended.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I had not heard of this book by Hesse, and I stumbled on this by accident. It is quite a brilliant book. You go along with the short life of the young hero, from the point where he is selected to go to the university, his friendship, his falling out with the "establishment"; his nervous breakdown and eventual death. The writing is very low key, and there are parts that I can sympathise and identify with. While the writing style is low key, I recognise the malaise that still afflicts us today, how the "system" can break you down unless you know how to play ir, or unless you rebel. Rebellion, however, is not normally encouraged..
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Hesse takes on parents' expectations and education without personal growth in this early novel of his. There is a little of Hesse's life in every one of his novels. Great as all of his works are.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I loved reading this book. I completely disagree with many of the industrial methods STILL used today in our educational system and find that the methods can cause severe and unnecessary anxiety making the learning process a very unenjoyable experience. I have never read a story like this before.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I've adored Hesse since I read "Narcissus and Goldmund." This semi-autobiographical book is supposed to give good insight into Hesse as an artist and is the key to understanding his subsequent works. As usual, I found it beautifully written and insightful, a wonder that he's fallen out of favor in the canon.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Hesse's lyrical yet uncomplicated language (even in translation) provides a sensitive and beautiful examination of nature's triumphant reclamation of a failed academic. A heartbreaking and humane study of archetypes set against a brilliantly rendered landscape, this is a dark and gentle story inviting patience and reflection. Excellent.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    A dark tale of a student pushed to the brink. Early treatment of themes Hesse will repeat; academics vs. spirit and death by water the most obvious.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    The blurb on the book's back cover describes this work as the "touchstone" in Hesse's "lifelong examination of the conflict between self-affirmation and self-destruction." But the promotional blurb doesn't really do the book justice. It's also a touching and insightful tale of a young man's struggle to find his place in society. Most readers will undoubtedly find some twists in Hans Giebenrath's personal odyssey oddly familiar. The story moves along at a nice clip, introducing credible characters in situations that are as relevant today as they were a century ago.