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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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Sep 19, 2018 Carrie rated it it was amazing

Shelves: mgr, young-adult, science-fiction, fantasy, 4-and-a-half-to-5-stars, 24-for-24, read-my-shelves

4.5 stars....

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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.

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May 22, 2018 Jen Ifer's Inklings rated it really liked it

Shelves: audio-books, read-in-2018, silverfish-book-club

Wow. That was intense. I need to read the next in the series soon to see how the rest of this goes.

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Dec 31, 2014 Amy rated it really liked it

Shelves: busy-as-a-bee-books-group, _own-ebook, fiction, read-in-2015

I really enjoyed this book! Found there were a lot of parallels to Hunger Games and other similar books but this was a pretty refreshing take & I enjoyed it. Definitely recommend! Looking forward to reading the second in the trilogy!

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Feb 05, 2016 Marla rated it really liked it

Shelves: with-reservations, dystopia, zz-2018, boys, young-adult, science-fiction, mythology, award-winner, challenged, 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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Dec 16, 2014 Brenda rated it it was amazing

Shelves: own

This was fantastic. It started off a bit slow, and I almost put it down thinking it just wasn't my thing. I'm so glad I didn't. It does have shades of other novels. I saw a lot of Hunger Games, and some Ender's Game as well. So it was fitting that the main character was compared to the two protagonists of those novels on the front cover.

It should bother me that this book borrowed so heavily from other novels, but it doesn't. There were enough differences and originality to keep the story fresh. ...more

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Jan 12, 2022 Amanda R rated it really liked it

Fantastic book to start 2022! Man, this guy can write! Terribly engaging story, full of memorable characters - Darrow, Mustang, Sevro, Roque, Pax...I probably would have given it 5 stars, only I'm personally not as into long descriptive "battle" type scenes and there were a lot of those in here due to the nature of the storyline. However, the characters more than made up for those and I found myself getting attached to quite a few! I am eager to see where Darrow's story takes him. Will for sure ...more

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Sep 29, 2017 Anjillica Navarro rated it really liked it

okay...um...okay...this book...yeah... I'm not sure where my feelings on it start and where they end. It was hard to get into. There were chapters I had to trudge through for sure. But the ending (not really the ending because it is a series) but the ending was worth it. The depth of the world and the characters are really what got me. I felt things for sure, but mostly anger and frustration. Not because of the quality of the book but because of the story itself. I wanted justice, but I must be ...more

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