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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
Rounded up from 4.5/5. I really enjoyed the book. Initially, I ridiculed the idea of the society being portrayed, but the author described it with so much depth, through character building/etiquette and some world building, that it became both immersive and believable. The story has a "slow" beginning, but when the main theme of the story (no spoilers here) begins, the author really creates both an entertaining and "gripping" storyline that has excellently placed cliffhangers and surprises/bombs
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história boa, mas a escrita é sofrível
Jul 31, 2019
Andrew Tucker
marked it as tbr-scifi
Aug 09, 2019
Ashley Hart
marked it as to-read
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Mary
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