I wanted to explore that contrast between them and develop them a little bit more. He loves flowers, he’s very soft, he’s quiet and kind of unsure. I wanted to explore his mind: What is it like to be that kid? What is it like to grow up after experiencing a childhood like that? And how is that different from his brother’s experience? They’re very much opposites, in that way, and I always knew that they would be opposites. A lot of his decisions as a child changed the course of history for the Republic. He was the reason why the originally met June he was the reason why they broke into a hospital and started the chain of events that led to the rest of the trilogy. He was never a point-of-view character in the original trilogy, but everything he was involved in was the catalyst for the story of Legend. Here, you shift the focus primarily to Eden. I realized that was the story that I wanted to write. All those ideas came together at the same time. There was more I wanted to find out, about how they recovered from the aftermath of a war and how they end up healing. After I wrote Warcross and Wildcard, which was kind of my way of exploring that society again, I realized that I wasn’t done telling this story of Day and Eden. It just took me a while to find the right story. MARIE LU: I started thinking about writing Rebel way back when I first finished the original trilogy. Now, we will get to see what happens soon enough, because Rebel is coming out! Here’s some of what Marie’s stated in her interview about the highly anticipated book.ĮNTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Let’s start with your decision to return to Legend with Rebel. That may have been fine for the tone of the story, but Marie, along with many of the fans, would every-so-often think on the series and wonder about those characters and if they were able to start something again. The way the series ended was pretty much an open ending for many fans, not seeing an actual happy ending for June and Day. If you had read Legend when it first came out eight years ago and found peace with the final book of the trilogy, Champion, when it released two years later, then you might be in the minority. Entertainment Weekly got the exclusive with Legend author Marie Lu and she opened up about coming back to the book series that started it all for her.
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