I don’t have control over everything in the real world, but I am the God of this world.” “Feeling out of control made me feel like I had to write that fourth book. “I just felt so small and hopeless for a while, and I’m sure a lot of us did,” Lu said. It’s been almost 10 years since the first book, “Legend” was published, so the question is, why now? At her book launch in San Francisco’s Books Inc., Lu explained that her decision to write a fourth book was prompted by the 2016 election. As we closed the books, we were not fulfilled with the bittersweet farewell to the epic saga instead, we were furious at the vague epilogue, our treasured happily-ever-after between Daniel and June tantalizingly out of reach. Who will be Champion?” We, alongside countless other elementary and middle schoolers, read those words on the backside of Marie Lu’s beloved “Champion,” thinking it would be the end of the series.
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