Cause Your a Legend in Your Own Time

Man I haven't thought about this song in a long time.  It's a great one.  Legend isn't great.  It isn't bad.  I listened to it as I waited for my audio cd of Robert B. Parker's Lullaby to come in at the library.  It's the first in a new series by the same name.  A dystopian deal where the US is now a very nasty place.
The Republic rules the western coast of the country, their leader has been elected to his eleventh consecutive four-year term.  Rich, smart kids work for the Republic, the smartest of them is a teen named June.  The poor people are well, poor, and a group of rebels is, well, rebelling, against the Republic.
June's is told by the Republic that her loving brother has been killed by the Republic's number one enemy, a teen boy named Day.  Day and June meet and don't know who the other is.  They fall for each other.  Bad things happen.  The book could be a tween book, as the concepts are really easy to follow and the writing is tweenish, too, except there's a lot of violence.  A tween who has no trouble with tons of violence wouldn't be shocked I guess.  There were, of course, a lot of similarities to The Hunger Games.  Even an evil version of Haymitch and a boy with a name that sounds like a girl's, like Gale!  It was a decent book, I don't mean to rip on it so much.