Mar 27, 2024LPL_LeahN rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Ooooookay, wow. That feeling when you start a new prolific series and have so much to look forward to. 🤩 I loved this. Sci-fi Game of Thrones, Hunger Games in space, all of these lofty comparisons and literally all the good things you’ve…
Jan 18, 2024Gareldb rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
I loved this book! Much of it came across like a cross between a game of Capture the Flag and Lord of the Flies with a dash of Hunger Games thrown in.
It begins with life on Mars by a group of underground terraformers called Reds who…
Oct 13, 2023tobybaratta rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
Extremely good novel and probably the best of the series - I give it a 4.5 instead of a 5, solely because it's so good that it makes books 4&5 hard to get through because the first arc is so good it raises your hopes too high.
Oct 08, 2023Christy24 rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
This was a fun, interesting and entertaining read. The academy arc really solidified the hunger games feel of this book. However, just because Darrow our MC is 16 when this starts doesn’t make this book YA. The rage described, and the…
Sep 27, 2023vicpoore rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Red Rising instantly had me hooked! It parallels The Hunger Games trilogy and is worth reading the entire series.
My only complaint- I don’t love how the author describes his (very few) female characters.
Sep 14, 2023LilasGrandpa rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
A good dystopian Science Fiction Novel. Likable main character. Interesting ideas about how a stratified society effects the different levels of that society.
Aug 28, 2023danielestes rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
This one came highly recommended by so many, and the same crowd swore up and down that it's definitely not YA. I beg to differ. Maybe it's not YA in terms of its gratuitously descriptive violence, but it definitely is YA in terms of its…
Jul 29, 2023JamieMasters rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
It’s accepted by pretty much all fans that the first Red Rising book is the series still finding its footing. The setup is conceptually fantastic, but Pierce Brown is still honing his prose here, and the repetition, the often stilted…
May 04, 2023rvphinney rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
Solid, entertaining dystopian SF, especially for a first book. I enjoyed it well enough that I will probably take out the second book.
First part of the book is most interesting, with good world building, especially of the Red's…
May 03, 2023Uma Sharma rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
Set far in the future, people are separated by classes of colors, and the Red are
required to harvest different minerals on Mars and serve the upper classes, the
highest of which being Golds. Our protagonist Darrow realizes that all he’s…
Mar 04, 2023spacegoatrun rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Darrow, Servo, Pax, oh where to start. Martyrdom, sci fi, world building, consistent fast paced action scenes, if any of these sound good to you this may be a worthy read for you. To me this felt like Hunger games meets Warhammer 40k if…
Dec 30, 2022Molly_pop rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Red Rising follows a futuristic world where humanity has advanced into an abusive dystopian caste system that oppresses and abuses those who are not at the top. Darrow, a Mars-born, “Red” class miner, (the lowest Class), finds an…
Nov 05, 2022Kimberleygray rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
This story is set in the future starting off in a mining community on Mars. Darrow is a 16 year old Red who is picked to start a rebellion. He must assume the identity of a Gold and go to their academy. The intent is he would rise…
May 01, 2022Cl2jub rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
Red Rising is a science fiction dystopia with a rigid caste system. Darrow is a worker in the mines of Mars, where he toils to make Mars habitable for others. But when his clan are unjustly treated, he bands with dangerous rebels to get…
Apr 11, 2022pacl_teens rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
"In this dystopian science fiction novel, a future society, where people have expanded from Earth and civilizations have taken root all across the solar system, has emerged. This new society is governed by a hierarchy of colors, which…
May 14, 2021TEENREVIEWCREW rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
Red Rising is another book set in a time where a ruling class is all powerful and projects power upon the people deemed lower beings. In this book, people are separated by a colour system, and our protagonist Darrow is born into the Reds,…
Mar 01, 2021ScorchingSun rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
The priorities of multilayers of loyalties are violently sorted out in a dystopia of power and corruption.
Similar to The Hunger Games but more emotionally driven, and packed with heartless villains and heart-full heroes.
The plot…
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