Fifteen-year old Kincaid (oft referred to as Trainee 15892 by the controlling entities of his Island) has never had a birthday party. He has never indulged in cake, cookies, or other scrumptious treats. He has never met his parents. He has not had what one would call a normal upbringing. Sold into bondage as a child, just as every other Trainee on the Hawk Islands, Kincaid has been raised from infancy into young manhood cast away from the war-ravaged mainland of Knav (a war his parents helped ignite). He has been strictly trained and even jolted for one sole purpose: to mold himself into the perfect Token, an obedient and ever-serving slave meant to conform to every expectation of the select Elitists of the country. Upon reaching his sixteenth birthday, there will be no sweet party, but he will, instead, become eligible to be sold as a Token at auction to the highest bidder.
But life is not all doom and gloom on the sun-drenched Hawk Islands. Kincaid has a family of hundreds of brothers and sisters on the Island. Most importantly, he has found the love of his life in the captivating young Hadley. But when Hadley is unprecedentedly sold months early at auction, Kincaid’s world is turned upside down as he prepares himself to do anything to get her back. On his journey to find her, Kincaid begins to slowly discover the heroic and troubled secrets of his family’s past. His path back to Hadley runs straight through embracing his birthright and accepting his unlikely destiny as the Savior of Knav.
My Review
-4/5-
A free copy was received in exchange for an honest review.This book was pretty good, I just constantly wanted to keep reading it.
I found some of the names for characters and places and things to be slightly weird, but it wasn't to bad I just have no clue how you would say some of the names.
There is a lot of characters and lot of things going on. So it's cool to see how it all unfolds but it was mainly just a lot of information to try and keep straight. The book also in a way had a informative ton. Like everything was more fact and details than emotional. It worked out really well though, I actually liked that because this book there is a lot to take in so it helped that Kincaid wasn't talking about his feelings most of the time.
Most of this book is in Kincaid's point of view but a few chapters through out this book are in other peoples point of view, like Benja and Hadleys'.
So the first half is pretty good basically a lot of what the synopsis is talking about. Half way through the book however we get a really nice twist and turn to the book that makes it more interesting, though it was pretty interesting to start with.
Lots of people crossing other people. Lots of rebelion going on and stuff like that. Which adds to the information of trying to know who is the traders who isn't.
The ending is also one of those that is unexpected. To see that this is going to be the first in a series it shall be interesting for sure to see where the next book goes and how it is told or even who it is told by. Honestly there is a lot of ways a second book can go with all that happened in this one.
I really liked this book and can't wait to see a second!
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