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3.5ish stars
It would be so easy to compare this to its most obvious inspirations, The Hunger Games and Ender’s Game. It would be so easy to write it off as a rip-off, just another entry in an endless sea of YA dystopian cash cows. And honestly the comparisons are completely justified. Having said that, it’s surprisingly not half bad.
I’ll be the first to admit to being a skeptic. I liked The Hunger Games, I did. Know how many of these books published since then I’ve liked? Maybe zero? They’re no ...more
It would be so easy to compare this to its most obvious inspirations, The Hunger Games and Ender’s Game. It would be so easy to write it off as a rip-off, just another entry in an endless sea of YA dystopian cash cows. And honestly the comparisons are completely justified. Having said that, it’s surprisingly not half bad.
I’ll be the first to admit to being a skeptic. I liked The Hunger Games, I did. Know how many of these books published since then I’ve liked? Maybe zero? They’re no ...more
I could not finish this. 1) I didn't enjoy the author's writing style. 2) I couldn't care about the main character. 3) I began skimming the text by the time I got to page 50, which is a bad sign, indicating I found the book tedious. 4) I couldn't keep the names straight of the various supporting characters, and didn't care about any of them. 5) The stratified society of colours didn't offer anything new and interesting to the genre. 6) Training Darrow to become a better psychopath than all the o
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This was so completely different from what I expected.
It is a dystopia, alright. But I thought it would read like a dark sci fi tale. Which it does not. It is a YA-fantasy. With the emphasis on fantasy. Reminded me a lot of Game of Thrones, actually. Not only because of the cruelty and constant threat to all the protagonists. But the setting as well. The setting, you ask? Well, I know that Game of Thrones is not set on Mars. But while Red Rising is, most of the time the reader doesn’t notice.
Da ...more
It is a dystopia, alright. But I thought it would read like a dark sci fi tale. Which it does not. It is a YA-fantasy. With the emphasis on fantasy. Reminded me a lot of Game of Thrones, actually. Not only because of the cruelty and constant threat to all the protagonists. But the setting as well. The setting, you ask? Well, I know that Game of Thrones is not set on Mars. But while Red Rising is, most of the time the reader doesn’t notice.
Da ...more
It took me 3 attempts to start this book over a period of time and I just couldn’t get into it. This time, I did become interested until the competition started in earnest and I quickly became quite bored and remained that way until the end. For me, it wasn’t about how it was written or implausible plot lines; it was just not what the ‘reading me’ had much interest in. Very Lord of the Flies-esque.
March 2023 - 3rd read 4.5 stars
Wow! Why did it take me so long to read this book??!!!
It is amazing!
It is amazing!
Sep 19, 2018
Carrie
rated it
it was amazing
Shelves:
mgr,
fantasy,
read-my-shelves,
young-adult,
science-fiction,
4-and-a-half-to-5-stars,
24-for-24
4.5 stars....
*May contain spoilers*
Set in time that our time is ancient history, and humans have colonized the cosmos. Where people are not considered equal and have been divided into a color class system.
Red are slaves lowest and Gold the ruler and highest. Darrow is a red and a helldiver on Mars, trying with the other reds to get the planet ready , terraforming it for humans left on a "dying" Earth to come and live. But little do they realize they are nothing more then slaves.
So this was fan ...more
*May contain spoilers*
Set in time that our time is ancient history, and humans have colonized the cosmos. Where people are not considered equal and have been divided into a color class system.
Red are slaves lowest and Gold the ruler and highest. Darrow is a red and a helldiver on Mars, trying with the other reds to get the planet ready , terraforming it for humans left on a "dying" Earth to come and live. But little do they realize they are nothing more then slaves.
So this was fan ...more
Recommended for: If you're looking for plot-driven, sci-fi dystopia that is basically the Roman empire in space, now with genetic engineering.
Easy text difficulty, but content leaning towards the "adult" in "young adult."
Darrow is a Red, the lowest caste of a planet spanning, imperial-esque society and doomed to spend his entire life toiling in the mines of Mars. His people have been told that they are helping to terraform the planet. They've been lied to.
After Darrow's wife is killed (yes, hi ...more
Easy text difficulty, but content leaning towards the "adult" in "young adult."
Darrow is a Red, the lowest caste of a planet spanning, imperial-esque society and doomed to spend his entire life toiling in the mines of Mars. His people have been told that they are helping to terraform the planet. They've been lied to.
After Darrow's wife is killed (yes, hi ...more
I finished the Red Rising Trilogy and started it all over again a day later.
It's that good.
The audiobook narrator, Tim Gerard Reynolds, bloodydamn killed it! He brought so much passion to the words of the story, it came alive for me.
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It's that good.
The audiobook narrator, Tim Gerard Reynolds, bloodydamn killed it! He brought so much passion to the words of the story, it came alive for me.
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Feb 21, 2016
Rebecca
added it
Jan 12, 2017
Linda
marked it as to-read
Jul 31, 2019
Andrew Tucker
marked it as tbr-scifi
Aug 09, 2019
Ashley Hart
marked it as to-read
Jul 14, 2020
Andy
marked it as abandonados-dnf
Jan 21, 2021
Navi
rated it
it was amazing
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Shelves:
libby-overdrive,
kindle,
utopia-dystopia,
young-adult,
adventure,
science-fiction,
space,
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