Secondborn

I got this free for Kindle - to get me hooked on the series I guess. It started out so good - good wit from the characters, interesting characters, and plot seemed cool. Then toward the end it one conspiracy after another and tons of secret societies and secrets. Too many characters to focus on and I got uninterested. It was overly complicated and I'm not going to read the others in the series. Amazon writes, "On Transition Day, the second child in every family is taken by the government and forced into servitude. Roselle St. Sismode’s eighteenth birthday arrives with harsh realizations: she’s to become a soldier for the Fate of Swords military arm of the Republic during the bloodiest rebellion in history, and her elite firstborn mother is happy to see her go.

Televised since her early childhood, Roselle’s privileged upbringing has earned her the resentment of her secondborn peers. Now her decision to spare an enemy on the battlefield marks her as a traitor to the state.

But Roselle finds an ally—and more—in fellow secondborn conscript Hawthorne Trugrave. As the consequences of her actions ripple throughout the Fates Republic, can Roselle create a destiny of her own? Or will her Fate override everything she fights for—even love?". All in all, I say: SKIP IT