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The byzantine politics are sometimes a bit too convoluted, and I don't think the imbalance in personal power and potential between the gifted and non gifted would make for stable society in the long run, but I find this universe fascinating. The story shines through. I found this book by accident, searching for a non-fiction book.
Steldor is gorgeous and swoon worthy, and utterly irritating. Yet at the same time he does try to be good to Alera and win her over. I developed a love hate relationship with Steldor. Narian is handsome to but not quite as much as Steldor. He is smart and witty full of chivalry and good to Alera.
Legacy (Legacy, #1) by Cayla Kluver
Another of my favorite characters was London, he is Alera's bodyguard and he is tuff, sensitive, and just amazing with Alera, he was one of my favorites. There are many other wonderful characters in this story that I will save for you to explore. The ending of this book was just unbelievable, I am in aw, I don't even know what to say, with out giving to much a way.
I am still shaking my head and have re-read the ending over a few times already wow! As you can tell I really loved and enjoyed this book. If you haven't read it go get it! I can hardly wait for book two and three, please hurry and release them!! Clean language Clean romance Audio version fun to listen to. Still my favorite ever series: First let me just say wow. I am in love with this book and with Cayla's beautiful writing. Cayla wrote this book when she was only 14 years old!
I know, can you believe it? I am so impressed with the storyline, it kept me at the edge of my seat. I loved the descriptive details which helped me imagine the life of Princess Alera. I enjoyed most of the characters, with the exception of one, Steldor, which was her father's choice for suitor, he was an arrogant son of a gun. I don't want to say a lot First let me just say wow. I don't want to say a lot about the story since I want everyone to experience it for themselves.
Legacy is a mix of King Arthur and Romeo and Juliet in a way. I honestly will say it's now on my top five favorite books with Twilight and The Hunger Games. The ending left me wanting more and I can't wait to continue the story with book 2, Allegiance. So, as you can all see I thoroughly enjoyed it and I recommend it to everyone. Legacy follows Princess Alera as she goes about her daily life.
Her father is determined for her to marry by the age of eighteen so he can step down and Alera can rule along side her husband. The last act Cokryi took against Hytancia was Legacy follows Princess Alera as she goes about her daily life. The last act Cokryi took against Hytancia was to steal a bunch of babies and leave their dead bodies at the front gates, except one baby was unaccounted for.
A love that may be the downfall to her kingdom. I had been pretty excited to read this novel. The book sounded as if it would offer a wonderful plot and rich characters but after a few chapters I found myself completely bored with the story.
I started skimming through pages then skipping ahead because I honestly could not get into it. The main character, Alera, spends soooo much time talking about frivolous and superficial stuff. Constantly describing what she was wearing, what her sister, Miranna, was wearing, how wealthy she was, how her hair was done etc.
She also spends a great deal whining. Her sister, Miranna, is just as annoying. She is younger and I do know how bothersome younger siblings can be but Alera and her sister were just too boring to care about.
Steldor was probably one of the well written characters. He is extremely arrogant, driven, and a total play boy. He is also very clever and cunning. Steldor was one of the characters that really shined in the novel even though he was most of the time, a total jerk. But I respect him for the fact that he never tried to convince anyone was anything else than what he is.
He is agile, sexy, and mysterious. He also has a good sense of humor.
The characters really were never well developed. Alera never changes nor does her sister. I had no respect for Alera. The plot was drawn out slowly but, in truth, was pretty much nonexistent. The novel consists of a constant mass of descriptions for every little thing and Alera whining she would have no choice but to marry Steldor. I never understood what Narian saw in her.
Steldor, I figured, just wanted to marry her because he wants to be king but what either man sees in her eludes me.
There was never any real chemistry between Alera and Narian or Alera and Steldor. Steldor never seemed to be attracted to her. The descriptions in the novel are endless. Descriptions of what people were wearing, what everyone was eating, how the kingdom looked. I enjoy reading descriptions. In Legacy, the descriptions were WAY too much creating a yawn fest most of the time. Legacy failed to leave a good impression on me. The dialogue is forced.
The plot is lack luster. Maybe the fact that the novel was written by a fourteen year old has something to do with it, not sure. I really should have seen it coming. After reading for about pages with the nagging thought of "Jeez, it's like a teenager wrote this" Don't get me wrong, she would have been a wildly talented and creative year-old, but that doesn't mean we need to publish it.
The world she creates is inconsistent and patchy, but its scale is large and there are certain plotpoints that aren't ba I really should have seen it coming. The world she creates is inconsistent and patchy, but its scale is large and there are certain plotpoints that aren't bad at all, even if the details and the characters fail. Alera is the eldest princess of Hytanica, a deeply misogynistic land where the King only has two daughters, so obviously whoever marries Alera will be the next king. Hytanica's other defining feature besides the belief that women are weak and useless, I mean is fear of its mysterious neighbor, Cokyri.
Hytanica should have been demolished sixteen years prior in a war with Cokyri, but the enemy mysteriously withdrew from their advantage after kidnapping and then leaving the corpses of nearly fifty Hytanican male babies at the gates the day they left. Only one child's body was never recovered -- so I think we can all guess what's coming with this little tidbit. Everyone seems to know this much about the war, but that's about the extent of Alera's knowledge beyond wildly "feminine" things like embroidery, dancing, and household management.
But that's all politics that Alera has obviously never been interested in before, or else she might know even a single fact about all that. Instead, Alera's biggest problem is that her eighteenth birthday is, traditionally, when the princess is supposed to marry and her only real option or the only real option her father is gunning for is Steldor, who resembles Gaston from Disney's Beauty and the Beast. It's actually the missing Hytanican child, son to nobles, who grew up to be Alera's romantic counterpart, though obviously he cannot be trusted and Dad's still pushing for Steldor and what's what you say?
A war might begin unless Narian is returned to them because he's the key to a prophesy for bringing about the downfall of Hytanica? Seriously, guys, I think the publishing world has only done Kluver a disservice by publishing this work. As I understand it, Legacy was originally self-published and now Harlequin Teen is picking it up, but apparently, they didn't want to waste money on an editor or Kluver had enough pull to be able to reject every rational change.
It feels like no work was done on this manuscript to help Kluver patch up the inconsistencies or guide her to add some depth to her characters -- even if she couldn't create characters that you don't want to punch in the face. Alera is boring and rather slow on the uptake -- a painful example of a heroine that we're supposed to like just because we're told to, without any reasons.
She's not very smart and she has no hobbies, wit, sparkle, or emotional depth. She makes poor decisions, going along with whatever others propose, and seems to have lived her entire life without an ounce of curiosity -- prior to now else how can we explain her total lack of knowledge of her own country's history or its conflict with Cokyri? Steldor comes off as self-absorbed and cruel, but Kluver wants you to think he's more than that, and so she tosses in enough contradictory behavior which only succeeds in making him look bi-polar.
Though I will say that while the ending of the novel moved in obvious directions, for Steldor and Alera, I didn't expect Kluver to let things go so far. Narian's appeal rests in his mystery, which is relatively maintained by his mostly mute state. The only semi-likeable character in the entire book is London, Alera's bodyguard who was once a prisoner of the Cokyrians -- and I think I only liked him because he seemed like a bit of an ass, but a slightly likable ass with honor and a brain aka the only character in the book that seemed to possess an ounce of intelligence.
The most annoying figure of all, however, is a young bodyguard whose behavior would easily have earned him a beheading after one or two scenes, and yet he was peristently judged a decent figure to protect the princess. Personally, I would have been delighted if London killed them all in a post-traumatic-stress fit. There's a lot of description of clothing that's supposed to pass as interesting detail, so it's not like Kluver didn't try where she could, but this is a highly disappointing novel and I can't even hope that Kluver will get better, as attention like this to work at such a young age could only stunt her growth by suggesting she doesn't need to work harder at her craft.
Readers, if all you're looking for is to be impressed by a year-old's writing, then go ahead and check out Legacy or get a job as a high school English teacher and hunt down the nerds who scribble in their notebooks all day , but if you're looking for good historical YA, treat Legacy like the scene of a terrible accident.
Keep moving along, folks, there's nothing to see here. Please note that I received an advanced egalley of this novel courtesy of NetGalley for the purpose of review. Hytanica has managed to rebuild from the war, but the anger felt towards the warriors of the mountains--not to mention anxiety that the war could resume at any time--has never completely ceased. Alera, crowned princess of Hytanica, now celebrates her seventeenth birthday, and must prepare to wed in exactly one year.
In a land where men hold complete dominion over women, Alera may not take her father's place as ruler, but must seek a husband who will fulfill the role as king. Unfortunately, no suitor matches her father's strict qualifications aside from Lord Steldor, the egotistical son of the Captain of the Guard whose very breathing manages to annoy Alera. All of this grows less important to Alera once the Cokyrians manage to infiltrate the palace, and word is whispered that there is a traitor among the Elite Guard.
Even Alera's beloved bodyguard begins behaving strangely, and Alera finds herself having to make a difficult choice. Her budding interest in the political affairs of her kingdom come to head when another Cokyrian, a young man named Narian, is captured, and Alera finds herself probing him for information that she, as a woman, is not allowed to know. As she grows closer with Narian, who was raised in a society where woman often hold power over men, Alera learns that she is capable of much she would never have imagined But the intriguing circumstances surrounding Narian's life will throw everything into jeopardy, for Alera as well as for the entire kingdom of Hytanica.
This brilliant story by a young new author captured my heart, and I am eager to read the tale's conclusion in the following book. Another reviewer on amazon said something about this book that made a lot of sense to me- that if the author hadn't been 16 that she wouldn't have gotten nearly as much attention as she already has. I have to agree with that- the book is "ok" but other than that I sort of don't see what all the fuss is about.
The story follows Princess Alera as she goes about her daily life. She is told that she must choose a husband before she turns 18, but unfortunately the only suitor her father will really a Another reviewer on amazon said something about this book that made a lot of sense to me- that if the author hadn't been 16 that she wouldn't have gotten nearly as much attention as she already has. She is told that she must choose a husband before she turns 18, but unfortunately the only suitor her father will really allow is the egotistical Steldor. Only one baby was unaccounted for.
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Initially I'd liked the first few chapters but after a while the book's charm just seemed to dissipate. I certainly can't understand why two guys are chasing after her, although I'm assuming that Steldor's affection is more because he wants to be king. And then there's the descriptions. Endless descriptions of what people were wearing, what they were eating I was willing to put up with it because I do like some description, but the descriptions would take a good chunk of the book.
I finally lost my patience when I was treated to an overly detailed description of a tiara Rather than just say that she'd worn it earlier, we're given another description of it. A description that took up an entire paragraph. After a while the descriptions just become irritating. I really wanted to like this book, really I did. As it was, the book seemed to be more of a chore to slog through than anything else. Maybe others may like it, but offhand this book just doesn't appeal to me.
The book is "ok" but overall it just didn't seem to stand out to me like Paolini's Eragon series did. In a year or so after she gets more used to writing, but right now? Less would have been far more with this novel. ARC provided by amazon vine The characters' descriptions and depth was everything I love in a story! There was never a moment where I felt like skimming.
I don't have a single complaint about this book! I so completely loved Alera's relationship with her bodyguard, London! Everything just moved at a nice constant pace. Nothing was revealed too soon to give things away. Clean, No language Here's a book trailer I made with character representations and theme songs View all 10 comments.
One of our TAB members recommended this to me, and I really loved that it's printed in blue ink with nifty illuminated letters to start each chapter. I was a little hesitant when I learned it was written by a 14 year old, mostly because the other books I've read or tried to read by teens Eragon and Truancy weren't really my cup of tea. I made it to page 16 and gave up.
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Which is fine, and if that doesn't bother you perhaps you'll like the story, but it d One of our TAB members recommended this to me, and I really loved that it's printed in blue ink with nifty illuminated letters to start each chapter. Which is fine, and if that doesn't bother you perhaps you'll like the story, but it drove me crazy. There might be a beautiful story in these pages, I just don't have the patience to read it. I think I should probably just avoid all books written by teens. Three strikes, you're out, yeah? The writing was nicely paced and with elements of action, duty, betrayal, love and family, the story kept me engaged until the end.
One of the things I noted though was that there is a lot of description about the food, setting, clothes, etc. As someone who is bad at visualization, this made it easier for me to imagine stuff, but at times even I found all the descriptive passages bothersome. In terms of the characters, I felt like I only knew them in a superficial way.
Alera, as crown princess, wishes that she could have more input but is hindered by her patriarchal society. With some editing, I think the Legacy series has the potential to become great. Oct 15, Melissa Parsons rated it did not like it Recommends it for: Legacy by Cayla Kluver is the first in the Legacy trilogy.
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Seventeen year old Princess Alera of Hytanica is supposed to marry a man who will become king and her father's choice is not one she wants. What does catch her eye, though, is an intruder with steel-blue eyes and her kingdom's greatest enemy. The cover was pretty and it drew me in, which should have been a sign. Whenever there's a pretty cover, chances are, it's a horrible book. But, Cayla was only fifteen when she wrote this, so I figure Legacy by Cayla Kluver is the first in the Legacy trilogy.
But, Cayla was only fifteen when she wrote this, so I figured, why not? But the thing is, I'm still wondering how this book was published. So, it starts out with a prologue, which pretty much tells everything you need to know about the book. In fact, you can read that and not have to read more because you know what's going to happen. A bunch of boys were taken from the enemy, all but one were returned dead. Guess where that one is? Yeah, if you guess he's with the enemy and suddenly comes back and is the intruder mentioned in the description, you guessed right.
If you didn't guess that Once you get past the prologue, you have to deal with the encyclopedia, I mean the story. Which consists of Alera telling the reader everything about everything. I don't mean explaining it or showing it, like you know, good writers do, but telling the story. Which makes it drag on even more. Honestly, it felt like I was reading an encyclopedia with random conversations in the middle.
One of the big plot points for this story is just so ridiculously stupid that it would never ever happen. Once Alera turns eighteen, she has to marry and her husband will take over the kingdom as King right away and her father will step away. What kingdom that you can think of has ever done that? Because it's stupid and no King would ever be good enough because they wouldn't have any training whatsoever.
It takes time to learn. If you just get some random guy off the street to be King once he's married, the kingdom is going to go downhill within a year or two. Add in the fact that Alera's kingdom is on the brink of war and you're really screwed. Why in the world would any king step down as soon as his daughter married when there's a war brewing? Does that make any sense whatsoever? In Cayla's world it does. And instead of actually saying anything to her father, she'd rather whine and complain about the fact that she has to spend time with him.
By that, I mean whine and complain to the reader or her guard who can do nothing about it. And why is it that he's the ONLY guy in the kingdom that's eligible to marry? Is this kingdom so small and tiny that there's only a few people? Or so overpopulated with women, that there's not many guys there?
Why is this creep the only one there? The horrible, horrible adverbs. Adverbs are the tool of the lazy writer. Adverbs tell the story when you want to show your story. Cayla doesn't show a thing. All she does is tell us boring information after boring information. That's why this book is so thick - it's filled with boring encyclopedia information that no one cares about, like how a room is so splendidly decorated or what fine details are in someone's outfit. I think there's one, if not more, in every sentence.
After so much of this, I had to call it quits. I couldn't finish it. There is only so much encyclopedia reading, bad writing, horrible flat characters I can take before I want to knock someone out with the book. I honestly wanted to burn this book, but I got it from the library and I was not paying the fine for not returning it. I won't judge on that, I judge on the writing and the writing in this book was horrible. It's not even "good for fifteen". It's obvious Cayla doesn't know much about writing or what she's talking about. Maybe if this was a MG book or for younger audiences and Cayla had a different plot, or she waited until she knew more about writing to write this, it wouldn't have been so bad.
But as it stands, it's horrible. I didn't finish and I'm not reading more of this series or from this author ever. I'm not recommending this book to anyone. Unless you want to fall asleep, that is. I've been trying to read this off and on and today I realized I just won't be able to finish it. A cliche storyline lost princes, princesses wanting their own will, arranged marriages, etc. I can deal with--if it's well done. And I'm sorry to say but Legacy 's writing is not. While I am quite impressed that Ms. In the first 50 or so pages, every little thing is me I've been trying to read this off and on and today I realized I just won't be able to finish it.
In the first 50 or so pages, every little thing is mentioned from the exact color of the girls' gowns to their eyes to the layout of the hallways and everything!