mostlypicsofbeignet 's review for:

Secondborn by Amy A. Bartol
3.0

**Slight Spoilers Ahead**
Tell me when this sounds familiar... In a dystopian society, where some arbitrary characteristic is used to divide people into classes, a young woman rises to destroy the system by siding with the rebels and bring equality to everyone while simultaneously fostering a romantic relationship with an mysterious attractive male who society forbids her to be with...

Is it Divergent? Is it The Hunger Games? Is it Cinder? Is it every other young adult sci-fi book ever written?

While the storyline is over used, I still enjoyed reading this book (which I got for free as a Kindle First book from Amazon Prime). I was a little annoyed that Hawthorne so quickly moved on from his previous relationship to be with Roselle, citing that he had loved her since he had first seen her on TV as the reason they should be together. There was a brief moment towards the beginning of the book where I thought "Wow, the author is going to let Roselle's attraction to Hawthorne go reciprocated because he is already in love with someone. She's not going to cop out and use the "Romeo & Juliet forbidden love ploy"; I was wrong.