Red Rising
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| Rating | : | 4.73 (918 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00I3PUCIY |
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| Number of Pages | : | 160 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-01-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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"A Dystopian worth Diving Into." according to Robin Snyder. Dystopian novels seem to be a dime a dozen lately, some good, some horrible, so it is great to see a book set itself apart and really capture my imagination. Red Rising is a combination of The Hunger Games and Lord of the Flies if you turned the volume up to 11.-- I am the spark that will set the worlds afire. I am the hammer that cracks the chains.The beginning was a little predictable, I mean to create a man with an epic quest there must be a great injustice done to him. Darrow is that boy/man, while most boys of seventeen but he has seen and been through too much to be a boy any longer. Married to his childhood sweetheart Eo at sixteen. Perfect for Scifi & Hunger Games Fans! Deanna Reads Books Red Rising is a book that everyone kept telling me to read, but I just kept putting it off, or I got stuck between review books and I could never fit it in. I was hoping to get to it so I could review it for last Sci-Fi November, but alas I just couldn't get to it until now.I loved the beginning of this novel. The bleak life and hardship that the Reds face is so clearly mapped out. I really got a good feel for what life and culture was like for the Reds. I love a good sci-fi novel with a class struggle, so I was hooked from the beginning. The book takes a turn once Darrow gets mixed up in the revolution and finds out that everything he ha. Al B said It's OK. Since most people will look to the review of the first book in a trilogy, will write my review for the trilogy here. In one word, the books are depressing. I guess I should have read the sample first, as it was written in the first person, which I generally find the most difficult to read unless the author is exceptional. Darrow, the main character and "I" in the book, is continuously questioning himself and rehashing the same old stuff over and over again. While I am sure others will say this is to show growth, I found it tedious, distracting from the story. Sometimes, it went on so long, I forgot where the main plot was going. His overu
Soon he discovers that humanity reached the surface generations ago. But Darrow and his kind have been betrayed. Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future. Inspired by a longing for justice, and driven by the memory of lost love, Darrow sacrifices everything to infiltrate the legendary Institute, a proving ground for the dominant Gold caste, where the next generation of humanity's overlords struggle for power. Darrow - and Reds like him - are nothing more than slaves to a decadent ruling class. He will be forced to compete for his life and the very future of civilization against the best and most brutal of Society's ruling class. There, he will stop at nothing to bring down his enemieseven if it means he has to become one of them to do so.. Like his fellow Reds, he works all day, believing that he and his people are making the surface of Mars livable for future generations. Yet he spends his life willi