Born of Legend | Review

Let me tell you up front that this book was good, and I liked it, but it was looooooong. It took me a week to finish despite listening every day for about 6-7hours. Actually, I would have given it 5 stars if not for some things like Length and Storyline repetitiveness.

AUTHOR	Sherrilyn Kenyon	STARTED	March 20 2017
FORMAT	Audiobook	FINISHED	March 27 2017
RATING	🤗 🤗 🤗 🤗	SERIES	The League, Book 9

Anyone who has had a chance to talk to me knows that I love audiobooks. For this particular series, Fred Berman does the narration, and he is just awesome! Oh, he also plays TIMON on The Lion King on Broadway. I only noticed that because when we watched the play for our anniversary, I saw his name on the playbill it kind of 'sounded' familiar. When I read that his artist description included audiobooks, I hurriedly checked my current read, and ohmygosh, YES! That's HIM! Squeeee!!!

Now you'd think a good narrator plus a bangin' SciFi-Fantasy-Romance series would be a perfect match -- weeeellll.. it would. Except I had too many flashbacks to a novel done by the same author but just set in a different universe and time era.

	THE LEAGUE	DARK HUNTERS
Twin Brothers who currently hate each other	Check	Check
One Brother is the Hero, the other a Villain (of sorts)	Check	Check
Apparently the Villain brother is kind of misunderstood, extremely so.	Check	Check!!!
The Love Interest of the Villain is the only one who happens to understand him	Check	Check
The whole story happens during the timeline of the other books  in the same series	Check	Check
Villain has no choice in the matter but to be a Villain because well,  life sucks for him	Check	Check
Each brother thinks the other brother is livin' the life while he suffers (perception problems)	Check	Check. Check. Check
Brothers figure out that other people were to blame for their rift,  and agree to work on improving their relationship	Oh	Yeah

See what I mean? If you follow the series, I think you know who and what I'm talking about *wink*wink*

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But, like I said, I did enjoy the book, despite its length. I was excited to read Dagger's story since it provides a different point of view on the storyline at the end of Born of Betrayal which was quite well done. I loved Dagger's acerbic wit and his sarcastic retorts, Ushara's determination and Trajan and Nero's kindness despite their tough exteriors. It does my heart good to see brotherly love and understanding given to Dagger when at the start it was so cruelly denied him.

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I found myself actually empathizing with the characters. I felt Dagger's frustration, laughed at his jokes and sarcastic barbs, growled with irritation at some of the other characters short-sightedness and close-mindedness. In a way, this book is timely since it speaks to the reader about being accepting of and open to differences. Despite being set in an imaginary futuristic world, with the characters being a hodgepodge of difference races, cultures, and genetic make-up, it resonates with me, especially because of the current happenings in the real world.

Born of Legend parallels to the stories of the first 3 books, the events in the books happen mostly at the same time as certain Important Events. Here we meet Fain & Venneck, Talyn Batur, and of course, Nyk and Kiara, Darling Cruel, Rin Dane, and other League favorite. I like how it filled in little-known gaps in the series leading me to go "Oh.. So that's what happened.." several times over. 

For newcomers to the series, I suggest reading the League books in chronological order to help give you a better appreciation of this particular novel. Though all the books can be read as a stand-alone, it's better done in a manner allowing the story to grow and develop as it was meant to. 

The love story element is present, and as all romance novels go, the relationship develops almost instantaneously. They go from being strangers to lovers in a chapter and a half. That being said, I'm almost thankful that this book isn't much of a bodice ripper since that would be a little awkward while on an audiobook. LOL

All in all, it was a fun read, the narrator had a good range of voices, the storyline felt cohesive with her other books in the series, and it did not feel like a filler book -- in fact, it felt like one of those "I need to explain what the heck is going on here on the other side" book. I would have given it 5 SQUEEES but again -- length and repetitiveness. 

If I wasn’t reading DarkHunters and The League at the same time I would probably not mind at all.

I do hope  Sherri continues on with stories for now and looking forward to hearing about the (mis)adventures of the second generation of League characters.

XOXO,

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