text: Because I haven’t read anything exactly like Legacy of Kings before, it took me about a third of the way through the book to get my bearings. Most of what made that so difficult in the beginning were the multiple POVs. If I recall correctly there were six different POV characters. After the first 30% or so, I was finally able to keep the POV characters straight. Having multiple narrators helped with that tremendously! By the halfway point, I had already formed pretty good opinions about which characters I preferred. In particular, I was really pleased with how Katerina was written. I found her to be the type of quick, clever female character that I tend to gravitate towards and I much preferred her to Zofia, who seemed more like your typical YA lovesick female trope (but thankfully, there wasn’t much of her). I thought the plot was very well-developed and set the stage nicely for future installments, while maintaining an exciting pace and keeping my interest in this installment. I adored the historical background and found that it has renewed my interest in Greek mythology and history in a way that no book has been able to do so since Josephine Angelini’s Starcrossed series.
  My complaints are few and mostly have to do with minor historical inaccuracies/modernizations (the use of words such as “acne” and “farting”, for example). I did not find this is overly juvenile at all and would definitely question a YA label (maybe? I’m not sure. The lines are very blurred.), but I guess I felt the writing had been “watered down” some to reach a broader audience (which isn’t necessarily a bad thing) and lost a little bit its historical feel. I shouldn’t complain about that though, because it made the story incredibly easy to follow, even during the daytime while multitasking.