Written by Teralyn Mitchell
The Tesla Legacy is the story of a girl who discovers there is more to herself than meets the eye. Lucy Phelps has been sheltered all her life by her over protective parents due to her having epilepsy and she was homeschooled until she was able to convince her parents to let her go to high school during her junior year. She’s now in the last few weeks of her senior year and trying to do everything right so that her parents will let her go to college. At the beginning of the story, Lucy has just caught her boyfriend, Cole, selling her answers to other students. Because of this, she is angry and ends up at the New Yorker hotel the next day after finding a picture of herself in her father’s office.
Her life is changed when she goes there and her powers are unlocked, making her question everything. She is pulled into a centuries old feud between two rival alchemical societies. She also meets a new guy named, Ravi who is a teaching assistant at her school and she’s immediately drawn to him. Both of these alchemical societies are powerful and they both want something different from her. One wants to help her control her abilities and help her live a long life while the other feels as if this gene is dangerous and should be contained. There is also a third rogue group who has its own agenda. While dealing with the last few weeks of school, Lucy has to deal with all new powers and learning about a whole society and history she didn’t know about. There were secrets that kept coming out until the end.
The Tesla Legacy was an intriguing to read a story about a woman who gets a superpower after something unexpected happens. It is common to see this happen to men but not so much for women. I liked how intelligent Lucy was and she was loyal, brave, and tough. Tougher than she believed she was with how she was raised by her parents. They made her feel defective and fragile but once her powers were unlocked and she learned more about herself and what was going on, she knew that there is more to her then her condition. I also liked Ravi. He was charming and it was fun to learn more about exactly who he was. It was clear there was more to him than he was letting on. I also loved Claudia, Lucy’s best friend. She was supportive and funny. I loved her personality so much.
The plot of this story was well done and the pacing was great. We slowly learn more and more about Lucy’s abilities and these alchemical societies and what they want with Lucy. There were some surprises that even I didn’t see coming. They made this story better and richer. The science of the story wasn’t overdone where you could not understand what was going on. The backgrounds Perez created for the societies was detailed and interesting. It was also cool how she intertwined real historical figures we’ve all heard of and changed some of their history to work for the story. I loved all the intricacies of the story and how Perez weaved science, alchemy, and fantasy together to give us a story that was full of adventure, intrigue and even a dash of romance.
I enjoyed The Tesla Legacy and seeing a female superhero who was intelligent and strong. I loved getting to know Lucy and about her powers. She was one of my favourite characters and I enjoyed the minor characters and the story that was weaved to make such an engrossing story that sucked me in from the first page and kept me turning the page until the end.
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Synopsis | Goodreads
The Tesla Legacy follows a precocious young scientist named Lucy Phelps whose fateful encounter in the Tesla Suite of the New Yorker Hotel unlocks her dormant electrical powers. As Lucy struggles to understand her new abilities through scientific experimentation, she is thrust into a centuries old battle between rival alchemical societies. One side wants her help and the other wants her dead, but both believe she is the next step in human evolution. Unfortunately, carriers of the genetic mutation—including Nikola Tesla—have a greatly reduced life expectancy. Even if Lucy can outrun her enemies, she can’t outrun herself.
