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3.72 AVERAGE
3.72 AVERAGE
The story was slow to get started and it took me a while to feel engaged in the characters. The premise is fresh though and about halfway through I started to truly sink in and enjoy it. By the end of the book, I was hooked and am ordering the sequels now so I can start them soon!
This book was a kindle first read and I didn't expect much out of it, but once I started reading, I couldn't stop! This is the first book in a new dystopian series, which unfortunately won't have the second book out until 2018. In the future, first born children get to be the ruling class, second born are second class citizens whose parents pretty much give them away as soon as they can since they don't want to get attached. It's sort of YA, but a little more adult, as the characters are 18 - 20. The main character, Roselle, comes from a rich family with a leader mother, but was alone her whole childhood and gets shipped off to become a soldier anyway. She is not helpless like a lot of these main characters, and not afraid to break a law. I liked her and the other characters, even some who were very morally ambiguous. I can't wait to read the next one, but I guess I'll have to.
I was a bit disappointed in the pacing and how all over the place this book was. It wasn't enough to deter me from reading the next book but I had such high hopes for this one and was left feeling underwhelmed. The heroine was enough of a badass to keep me wanting more but nothing was really explained. There needed to be more backstory. I kept backing up and re reading chapters because I thought I missed something and I didn't, it was just awkward pacing. Not much feeling between the love interests because it goes from 0-100 in .5 seconds before going back to 0 and 100 again. It was so odd..
This was particularly awful. It read like someone decided to publish the @DystopianYA Twitter account. How this got published is beyond me.
This took a long time to get going. I almost gave up. Especially because I kept questioning if I was reading Divergent or even Hunger Games. The similarities were a little annoying. But the second half was much better!
Now that I think about, why did I even give this book 2 stars?
Where to start with the problems with this book?
World-building. I have no idea why this world was like this. Why the Fates? Why are secondborns such losers? Why any of this??
The romance. Jeez. What a load. My eyes about rolled out of my head while reading this book.
Roselle. She was just so inconsistent. I honestly couldn't figure her out. She seemed so competent sometimes and so completely useless other times. Sometimes she seemed to know what was going on and other times completely clueless.
And don't even get me started on the leg shaving sequence.
Where to start with the problems with this book?
World-building. I have no idea why this world was like this. Why the Fates? Why are secondborns such losers? Why any of this??
The romance. Jeez. What a load. My eyes about rolled out of my head while reading this book.
Roselle. She was just so inconsistent. I honestly couldn't figure her out. She seemed so competent sometimes and so completely useless other times. Sometimes she seemed to know what was going on and other times completely clueless.
And don't even get me started on the leg shaving sequence.
I enjoyed this, though it got a tad too lovey-dovey in parts for my taste.
Loved it! Didn't want to put it down. Very Divergent and Hunger Games esq but better. She actually depicts PTSD better than Hunger Games. Roselle the main character is a bad ass too!
Amazing beginning
Amazing beginning!! Fast paced and easy to follow, Secondborn was an excellent dystopian story. I'm left with so many questions that I can't wait to see what answers lie ahead in book two.
Amazing beginning!! Fast paced and easy to follow, Secondborn was an excellent dystopian story. I'm left with so many questions that I can't wait to see what answers lie ahead in book two.