Champion by Marie Lu | Audiobook Review

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MY THOUGHTS

“The ending was just……!!!”

So, I am in a bind as to how I felt about this book.  On the one hand, I really enjoyed it.  The plot was fast paced and felt like a quick listen, too (it had lesser chapters than the usual YA novel) and despite the fact that it had fewer chapters, the last book of the trilogy managed to answer a few questions.

That being said, I HATED the ending.  I mean [spoiler]Day has amnesia! ugrrrhhh![/spoiler] and June [spoiler]had to give him up because she martyred herself for him…. yadda yadda yadda[/spoiler]!! So I just can’t get past it.

Let’s talk about June.  In this book, she becomes the Princeps-Elect and is in the running to become the Princeps.  The last Princeps was Andon’s mother so….it seems like a given that if she becomes the Princeps, she will become the Electors wife.  I also did not really connect much with June this time.  I felt she became a little TSTL for my taste and I thought she really didn’t deserve to be a Princeps-Elect.  Basically, I agreed with the other Princeps-Elect.  June didn’t really show any talents or skill to go into politics.  On a good note, June did admit that she wasn’t the right person for that position.

Now Day, on the other hand [spoiler]is dying[/spoiler] so he gave up June in Prodigy because he didn’t want her to deal with his issues.  He becomes an “I don’t give a shit” teenager and basically just sulks and [spoiler]goes to treatments (his illness is a side effect of what they did to him when he “lost” the Trial.[/spoiler]  But he still loves June.  Still, I did not really felt his connection to June in this book.  I did not feel that their relationship developed further.

Despite the character flaws, I actually enjoyed the book.  There were a few eye-rolling parts but it was okay.  There were also a few parts that really touched me but nothing that made the whole book better.

Let’s talk about the ending.  I HATED IT!  I get that it was left hanging to make the readers guess and make their own conclusions about what happened BUT still!  June and Andon also started dating and I did not like that because I didn’t like Andon at all.  So June and Day meet again after 10 years…. AFTER 10 years!  But then the end left me hanging.  I knew they would end up being together but….. I don’t know.  I just felt that the ending was just wrong.

THOUGHTS ON THE AUDIO

Narrator: Mariel Stern & Steven Kaplan

Their narration was still superb and definitely helped me enjoy the book better had I read it instead.

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