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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.
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
"Steel is power. Money is power. But of all the things in all the worlds, words are power."
Wow, what a crazy story. I kept trying to find similarities in it to think "oh it's like this book" but....NONE, I have none to compare it to.
This story is gritty and ugly. First, it's confusion and trying to understand the world in which Darrow lives.
Then it changes and is war. It's all war. And, as always with war, the rules are out and power and destruction and ugly terror rules the land. This story w ...more
Wow, what a crazy story. I kept trying to find similarities in it to think "oh it's like this book" but....NONE, I have none to compare it to.
This story is gritty and ugly. First, it's confusion and trying to understand the world in which Darrow lives.
Then it changes and is war. It's all war. And, as always with war, the rules are out and power and destruction and ugly terror rules the land. This story w ...more
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
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