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Firstborn (2014)

by Lorie Ann Grover(Favorite Author)

3.17 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0310739306 (ISBN13: 9780310739302)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Blink

review 1: Imagine your whole life having to be what you are not. Because they tell you different. Tiadone (a girl) is forced by her government/religion to be raised as a male. Firstborn daughters are left for dead if the parents don't declare them male. Her mother died giving birth and Tiadone's dad declares her male. His only connection to keep his child and part of his wife alive. A war is raging inside Tiadone. She is the FIRST declared male in her village. She has to withhold the law. She is forced to hide her femininity. Firstborn is a likeable book. Wished that it ended with more of what's to come. A major cliffhanger leaves you thirsty for more. Maybe Lorie Ann Grover will turn it into a series. Would I read it again? Yes! It has the potential of becoming a m... moreovie.
review 2: Tiadone is lives a life that is a lie, forced to live as a boy in a society where first born girls are left to die. Her father hid her sexuality and declared her a boy, she even has an amulet she wears to help her keep her secret. When she reaches maturity, she is expected to leave home and fight to defend it. But she will never be able to live the life that is expected of her and have a life worth living. Will she find love? Have children, a family of her own? How long can she keep the fact that she is, in fact, female a secret?As the story progresses, Tiadone struggles with her responsibilities. There are challenges both in the pretense she's led her entire life and with defending her home. She does indeed find someone to love, but she can't share that love, for obvious reasons. To spite her struggles and the inability to truly be herself, Tiadone has a certain quality, a humanity to her that is very endearing. The story flowed well and the chapters were concise, crisp and short. I read this entire book in one setting as I easily got lost in the story and in the characters. Grover did a great job with world building as well, but there are a lot of unanswered questions, and so much more to explore with both this world and these characters. I look forward to the next book in this series.Must read for Dysptopian YA fans, I'm reminded of Hunger Games and Landry Park when reading this story. 5 star read! less

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