Red Rising follows Darrow a miner on Mars in the distant future. Darrow's world has a caste system of colors red being the slaves and golds being the elite. There are other colors. Darrow is a red and he's fine being a red. He marries Eo at a young age and their happy together. One day Darrow's life is turned upside-down and he joins the Sons of Ares. He goes throw some advanced genetic procedures and becomes a gold. The goal is to take out the golds from the inside out but first he must survive the Institute. I can't believe thatI put off reading Red Rising for as long as I did. I'm excited to see where Darrow and the gang end up I'm the sequel.