When a boy who calls himself Merlin attempts (and fails) to make Bree forget about the incident by wiping her memory, her instead triggers a different and forgotten memory to resurface surrounding her mother’s tragic death.Įquipped with a magic of her own, Bre infiltrates the Legendborn in a quest to find out the trust about the circumstances of her mother’s death. Soon, she finds out about the secret society of students who call themselves Legendborn who hunt down these demons. Now at a residential program for high schoolers far from her home, it seems like the perfect escape from reality.īut that comes much truer after witnessing a flying demon attack someone on her very first night. Left on her own after her mother dies in a sudden accident, Bree resolves to run away from the life she once knew. But when the Legendborn reveal themselves as the descendants of King Arthur’s knights and explain that a magical war is coming, Bree has to decide how far she’ll go for the truth and whether she should use her magic to take the society down-or join the fight.Books like Legendborn are jam packed full of magic, monsters and thrilling action that leave you yearning for more stories that excite you in such a way.īree Matthews has gone through a lot at the ripe age of sixteen.

She recruits Nick, a self-exiled Legendborn with his own grudge against the group, and their reluctant partnership pulls them deeper into the society’s secrets-and closer to each other. Now that Bree knows there’s more to her mother’s death than what’s on the police report, she’ll do whatever it takes to find out the truth, even if that means infiltrating the Legendborn as one of their initiates. The mage’s failure unlocks Bree’s own unique magic and a buried memory with a hidden connection: the night her mother died, another Merlin was at the hospital.

A residential program for bright high schoolers at UNC–Chapel Hill seems like the perfect escape-until Bree witnesses a magical attack her very first night on campus.Ī flying demon feeding on human energies.Ī secret society of so called “Legendborn” students that hunt the creatures down.Īnd a mysterious teenage mage who calls himself a “Merlin” and who attempts-and fails-to wipe Bree’s memory of everything she saw.

Tune in for Sci Fi Book Club discussing Legendborn by Tracy Deonn! This is a virtual event! Please join our google group to receive Zoom link notifications! See our Book Clubs tab on our home page.Īfter her mother dies in an accident, sixteen-year-old Bree Matthews wants nothing to do with her family memories or childhood home.

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