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Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)

Pierce Brown

Start date: May 12, 2015

Finish date: May 31, 2015

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Jan 17, 2015 Vickie rated it it was amazing

Shelves: keeper-shelf, booksthatmakemegowow, 2022, nook, audible

YA dystopian future is the hip genre these days. Like all hip genres, it can get a little overwhelming since everyone seems to want to get on the hip bandwagon. Winnowing out the gems can be daunting, but worth it when the reader finds a book like this.
Not set on Earth like most dystopian novels, RED RISING is set on Mars of the future. The circumstances are very relatable to current times here. Separate color-coded castes of people with the extremely wealthy being the extremely powerful while e ...more

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Feb 05, 2016 Marla rated it really liked it

Shelves: mythology, with-reservations, challenged, dystopia, zz-2018, young-adult, boys, science-fiction, award-winner, pick-one-for-me

3 stars for the interesting but slow beginning of the book, 2 stars for the dry prep in the middle, then 4 stars for most of the intense Institute Game. Dystopia isn't my thing, but I've heard great things about this book and someone chose it for me for a challenge. I think I am going to listen to the rest of the books in the series.

This story seemed like The Hunger Games meets Ender's Game. I think the classroom setting and battle room of Ender's Game was more productive to teaching about lead ...more

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Sep 11, 2016 Amanda rated it it was ok

Shelves: book-club, young-adult, 2-stars, sci-fi, dystopian, futuristics

Scifi BookClub Sept 2016 / Audiobook:

I have so many strong, problem opinions about and reactions to this book. I the wave of loving a series like The Expanse, and picking this book for the Scifi BookClub because the second in the series was voted Goodread's Best Scifi for 2015, I expected a lot of this book......and I got absolutely nothing back.

The main character is superhuman and arrogant a lot of the time. A wife is friged, as an in-chatacter choice, just for the pushing of the male main ch ...more

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Sep 16, 2023 Hayley rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy, ya, scifi, dystopian

started out listening to the audio and switched to the ebook because it was so confusing with all the caste colors and people. There were parts i really liked, and parts i didn't. There were also a lot of eh parts. Overall i enjoyed it enough to want to read the next book. ...more

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