GreenBeanTeenQueen

I am very excited to be part of the Prodigy Blog Tour! I have an excerpt of the book and author Marie Lu's thoughts just for GreenBeanTeenQueen readers! PRODIGY Excerpt : Stretching out before us, peeking through the gaps between the military buildings, is a city: tall, shining skyscrapers reaching up through the low clouds and delicate snow, and each building illuminated by beautiful blue lights that pour from almost every window and every floor. Fighter jets line the skyscrapers’ rooftops. The entire landscape is aglow. – Day, page 282 Marie’s thoughts: It wasn’t a huge stretch for me to envision the world of Prodigy and Legend as our own world, and that in itself is a little disturbing. Everything dystopian in the books was pulled directly from reality: the Republic is not a far cry from North Korea’s regime, for example, and the plagues in Legend were inspired directly by the eugenics movement back in the early 20th century. When I first started writing Legend , in f...