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Red Rising
by Pierce Brown
There has been so much hype over Red Rising and almost everyone seemed to love it, well that is, everyone but me. I struggled through the whole book, thought about DNFing but forced through since everyone else loved it. I felt super guilty not loving it to pieces.
Likes:
The story was original, which is getting harder when the dystopian genre is so flooded with new books every day.
The main characters were interesting, I really enjoyed Eo (how the heck do you say that) and Darrow. I think the desire for vengeance and bettering a low state is always intriguing in a book.
The cast system was so interesting, colors defining who you are and how you live. It is really sad to think that still happens in our modern world. I don’t see it hard for something to happen like that again if the Earth did fall into chaos like all of the books in this genre suggest.
The progress in the book was interesting. I was so unique how Darrow was carved and changed. I found that part of the book the most intriguing.
The final part of the book was like Hunger Games on steroids. I really thought it resembled the game a lot, there were “game keepers,” kids killing kids, living off the land and people watching what was happening. This game was months long and a lot more intense.
Gripes:
The world-building was not explained. This was a HUGE gripe for me. The author would just a new made-up word and never explain it. It drove me nuts. Sometimes you could figure out what he was aiming at with how it fit into the sentence, but it was so annoying. I love world-building where you learn new things and get a really good idea of how the world works and looks. This book read like a second book in the series, where you were already introduced to the world.
I was bored quite a bit, and it was a longer book. This really just has to be a “me thing” because I was not into all the action, the war, the killing. I think people who like Game of Thrones would really like this book. I am just not that person.
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Likes:
The story was original, which is getting harder when the dystopian genre is so flooded with new books every day.
The main characters were interesting, I really enjoyed Eo (how the heck do you say that) and Darrow. I think the desire for vengeance and bettering a low state is always intriguing in a book.
The cast system was so interesting, colors defining who you are and how you live. It is really sad to think that still happens in our modern world. I don’t see it hard for something to happen like that again if the Earth did fall into chaos like all of the books in this genre suggest.
The progress in the book was interesting. I was so unique how Darrow was carved and changed. I found that part of the book the most intriguing.
The final part of the book was like Hunger Games on steroids. I really thought it resembled the game a lot, there were “game keepers,” kids killing kids, living off the land and people watching what was happening. This game was months long and a lot more intense.
Gripes:
The world-building was not explained. This was a HUGE gripe for me. The author would just a new made-up word and never explain it. It drove me nuts. Sometimes you could figure out what he was aiming at with how it fit into the sentence, but it was so annoying. I love world-building where you learn new things and get a really good idea of how the world works and looks. This book read like a second book in the series, where you were already introduced to the world.
I was bored quite a bit, and it was a longer book. This really just has to be a “me thing” because I was not into all the action, the war, the killing. I think people who like Game of Thrones would really like this book. I am just not that person.
For more reviews visit
A Flurry of Ponderings