Unfortunately, this book was really disappointing..Maybe it's just because it came out after I aged out of the main series, but even after rereading the entire series, I still couldn't bring myself to like the book. The main three books and even the novellas hold up really well for a second read years later. This book was painfully dull in comparison. 

I know that there's a suspension of belief for these kinds of ya dystopian books and that's the genre works. Bracken created great characters that I will always love and her world-building was fantastic throughout the original series. I can understand characters changing as they grow but in The Darkest Legacy, much of Zu's perspective just doesn't feel right. In fact, all of the characters feel rather similar, create nicknames the same way, and don't feel like individual, hnique characters. 

The worst part, the part that make it so difficult to get through this book, was how Bracken seemed to completely change the rules of the book universe...which is bold, and could have been really cool. I only wish it worked.