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Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)

Pierce Brown

Why we're reading this: Set on Mars about a stratified society and a rebellion to change things
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Jun 24, 2018 Melanie rated it really liked it

Shelves: ya, dystopian, scifi

I enjoyed this more than I would have thought - it starts off slow, and I had a hard time understanding all the devices and the caste system at first. I still struggled with a lot of the world building and keeping the characters straight at the end, but the protagonist is strong enough that he is able to carry the story. This reminded me a lot of the Hunger Games, sometimes so much so that I found myself wondering if the author took that concept and ran with his own version of it. It was equally ...more

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Jan 25, 2018 Jess rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 2018

I found the first 20-30% pretty compelling, but the last half of the book dragged on and I don't feel particularly invested in the protagonist's continued journey. ...more

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Feb 20, 2015 Carly Thompson rated it liked it

Shelves: ebook, 2015, science-fiction, dystopia

This book got off to a slow start and I almost abandoned it. The main character (and narrator) is Darrow, a Red (a member of the lowest caste in this future set tale) who works underground on the planet Mars drilling and working to make the planet livable for future generations. After Darrow's wife, Eo, is executed he becomes a revolutionary and through a series of events is genetically modified to become a gold (the highest ruling caste). The golds live on the surface of Mars (which is in reali ...more

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Mar 01, 2015 Julie rated it really liked it

Oh, book. Our relationship status would be "it's complicated."

I didn't really like you at first--your language is weird, and your story was honestly kind of boring for a good long while. When I find myself skipping ahead not out of anticipation but out of boredom, that's never a good sign.

However. I did like a lot of your social-type messages. Things about democracy (demokracy) and society that my philosophical mind is still pondering. I like your characters, and I like how certain characters I ...more

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