The Legacy (Declaration)

by Gemma Malley

When a Pincent Pharma lorry is ambushed by the Underground, its contents come as a huge surprise - not drugs but corpses in a horrible state. It appears Longevity isn't working and the drugs that are supposed to guarantee eternal youth are failing to live up to their promise. A virus is sweeping the country, killing many in its wake, and Longevity is powerless to fight it. When Richard Pincent of Pincent Pharma suggests that the Underground has released the virus, something has to be done to alert everyone to the truth and put the story straight once and for all.

• ISBN10: 1408800896
• ISBN13: 9781408800898
• Publish Date: 6 September 2010
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 22 October 2012
• Publish Country: GB
• Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 288
• Language: English
• URL: http://bloomsbury.com/Trade/

Reviews

This book started off really slow, but towards the end, I was struggling to keep up with its amazing twists and turns, the action and the way that I was hooked.

Once again, this book answers an important question which is "What happens when a pill that guarantees an eternal disease-free life fails?" What I love about this series is the way that it makes one think about long life and its consequences.

What made me enjoy this book even more was the the way the author used multiple POV's to create an effective story and hearing a whole load less of Anna and Peter (who are main characters that I can't connect with). What I thankfully got to read more of was the Underground take-overs and government/industry conspiracies, which was so freaking amazing!

There were a few issues that I had with this book, but in the end I honestly didn't care about what the issues were except for the way Anna and Sheila are seen to do stereotypical gender roles and are always needed to be protected or saved by someone else.

I enjoyed this book a lot more than I enjoyed the previous books in the series. There was more action, more conspiracies and thankfully less of Anna and Peter. In my eyes, this book has redeemed the series.

[Amber]

I read The Declaration (Book #1) ages and ages ago, and I absolutely loved it. It was one of the books that made me fall in love with the dystopian genre as a whole. A few years later I read The Resistance (Book #2), which I didn't enjoy as much, but I still thought it was a good book. I was pumped to read The Legacy, because I couldn't wait to see how the story would end.


The plot began at a really slow pace. The different chapters randomly featured a secondary character, and as someone who hadn't had time to reread this series prior to The Legacy's release, I found this rather confusing. Most of the secondary characters that were featured were important in some way, but I would have liked to have spent more time with them, rather than only one chapter.


Two thirds of the way in, though, the plot kicked in, leading to a fantastic climax for both the book and the series as a whole. There were a couple of plot twists in there which I hadn't even thought about previously, right up to just before they were discovered. I thought this aspect of the novel was done brilliantly.


There was also an epilogue which, surprisingly for me, I did also enjoy. It gives just enough information about what becomes of the world after the final chapter to satisfy me. I would have liked to see a little bit more, but I was happy with what I got.


I didn't care much about any of the characters in this book. There was little character development and it seemed as though the characters were now only there to spur the plot on. I would have liked to have seen more of Anna, considering she had such a big part to play in the first book. Instead she was barely in any of the scenes and even when she was, she wasn't doing much.


Overall, whilst I did enjoy some aspects of the story, I wasn't a huge fan of this book. It's a bit of a let down, because I enjoyed the rest of the trilogy so much! I disliked the slow pace, and I felt that the plot and the characters could have been worked on a bit more.


Have any of you guys read this series? What did you think of it? I'd love to know.

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