Secondborn by Amy Bartol

Secondborn by Amy Bartol

Following  Desolate Empire, I turned next to a new Young Adult book: Secondborn by Amy Bartol. It is set in a future where the privileged first born rule, the second born serve them and any third born are criminals to be hunted down. The protagonist is Roselle, the...
Lost in the Desolate Empire

Lost in the Desolate Empire

I took my Kindle to Cambodia and there I finished Book 3 of Christina Ochs’ Desolate Empire series, The Hammer of the Gods. I started reading them because I was searching for books like my Light Funnel series (which they’re not really), but kept reading them...
The Hunger Games

The Hunger Games

This reflection contains spoilers. Big ones. This probably doesn’t matter given I’m possibly the last person to have read The Hunger Games trilogy. I had heard people say the first book at least was good and I saw the first film a couple of years ago which was long...