Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)

by Pierce Brown

“Pax au Telemanus!” He beats his huge pike against his chest and hits puffy-haired Clown so hard, my friend flies back four meters. “Pax au Telemanus.” “Is a pricklicker!” I mock.

The Proctors have forsaken me, but the weather has not.

Pax is a riot when you get him going—a surprisingly energetic talker with a penchant for complimenting everything in his stories, including the villains, so half the time you don’t know who is good and who is bad.