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Red Rising
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Jim
May 26, 2016 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
My friends' reviews compare this book to everything from Battle Royale to Harry Potter, Ender's Game, & even The Hunger Games. The last isn't even in the same class - kindergarten compared to college. The others are as well written, but still don't come close & I don't want to say more. Don't read much about this, just read it. The discovery of what it is & where it is going - the journey - is one of the greatest parts. I had no expectations going into it beyond knowing that it was SF & it was r ...more
mina
Feb 02, 2018 rated it liked it  ·  review of another edition
Pertama "membaca" ini dalam bentuk audiobooks, tapi diriku ketiduran melulu. Natnat membaca buku ini dan memberikan review bagus (sambil mengingatkan diriku bahwa penulisnya cakep, yeah). Tapi tidak pernah tergerak membaca ebooks-nya entah kenapa. Sampai lagi-lagi minggu lalu diriku stress dan memutuskan shopping buku (this happened a lot lately). Terbelilah buku ini, edisi terjemahan.

Duh, bacanya melelahkan. Entah karena memang cara menulisnya atau karena terjemahannya (terjemahannya kurang bag
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Marc V.
Jan 27, 2020 rated it really liked it
Red Rising is a cross between The Hunger Games, Battle Royal, and Spartacus. While not the most unique of themes, Pierce Brown does an excellent job in weaving together the familiar theme of a David versus Goliath, the noble, the poor, the oppressed, fighting against the decadent and powerful. Ireland's fight against the British. Intriguing plot points keep the reader invested, guessing at the book's outcome. The good and bad news is that you'll have to read the next in its multi-book story. ...more
flajol
May 21, 2016 rated it really liked it
I really enjoyed Red Rising. It has shades of The Hunger Games trilogy, but in tone, gore and downright nastiness of some of the characters is much more reminiscent of Battle Royale (both good reads if you're looking for some vicious dystopian fiction).

Some of the jargon was a little jarring, but didn't really get in the way of my enjoying the book. I'm not a big fan of authors using unusual slang, but I suppose it does serve a purpose here.

It took a while for me to warm up to Darrow, but I lik
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Dea
Jan 24, 2015 rated it did not like it
Shelves: abandoned
Disclaimer: I read only about 100 pages of this, I could not make further.

Reads like the Dystopian YA twitter account. Cliché, riding on a cliché, chasing a cliché. From the 'these rules must be broken' to the 'you are special, more special than all the other special people, just because you are'.

Also, first person present tense, is grating. But that is a personal preference.
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Angel
Jan 04, 2016 rated it it was amazing
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Aug 05, 2017 rated it it was amazing
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Michelle
Aug 13, 2019 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Alicia
Sep 26, 2019 marked it as to-read