Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)

by Pierce Brown

Without me, she would not eat. Without her, I would not live.

“No benefits to a diver, none at all. Crazy, stubborn, rash …” “Dexterous?”

“So why not carve you to be the god of war?”

“Things are set in stone. Things are well ordered. Reds at the bottom, everyone else standing on our backs. Now you’re looking at me and you’re realizing that we don’t bloodydamn like it down there. Red is rising, Mickey.”