Reviews tagging 'Fire/Fire injury'

Red Rising by Pierce Brown

16 reviews

danaslitlist's review against another edition

medium-paced

I retract my entire review because apparently Brown only supports decolonization and rebellion and the oppressed when it comes to fiction but supports the genocide of Palestinians through the narrative of “self defensive” despite the fact that Israel has dropped over 12,000+ bombs on Gaza in the span of 18 days (killing over 6,000 civilians as of October 25, 2023) which has the same fire power as the nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima.

Support of rebellion, support of the oppressed when it only applies to fiction is negligent and transparent. 

Edit: He also quoted the actual war criminal Henry Kissinger and said: “for those hating on Kissinger, LOL, read everything. Especially if it’s your enemies textbook. Knowledge kills evil. Stay in your own echo chamber and you will only ever know your opinion.” So he can go fuck himself

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Death, Slavery, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Gore, Murder, Xenophobia, Sexual violence, War, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Rape and Sexual assault

Minor: Death of parent and Animal death

hapalyn's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Blood, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Slavery, Death of parent, Murder, Violence, and Animal death

Moderate: Excrement, Fire/Fire injury, Rape, Cursing, and Kidnapping

Minor: Alcoholism and Sexual assault

5 stars. If you can push through the first 70 pages, you're honestly set. I was definitely like... "this is the book everyone's raving about...?" until I hit around that mark and everything finally unfolded. This is for people who like: -Fast plots -LOTS of tension (lots of "waiting for the other shoe to drop") -Dystopian & Scifi (however, I am NOT a scifi fan, and I really really enjoyed this) -Underdog MC -The Hunger Games (specifically the actual hunger games.... it's not going to be 100% exact, but I can see the correlation. Keep your expectations realistic!) This is NOT for: -Anyone who is sensitive to blood, death, injuries, all the squeamish things. -Anyone who is heavily triggered by sexual assault and rape (this book is pretty blunt with those terms and doesn't specifically detail rape scenes, but it's implied and acknowledged). With that all being said, what I enjoyed most was the tension, the quickness of the plot (I didn't find myself bored waiting for 50 pages of world building after every single action scene), the cleverness of the fights, the characters were all very interesting to me, and a lot more. I think this book is obviously good, and I have high expectations that the rest of the series will be way better. Because it's the first book in the series, it's easy to look past some of the pacing at the start. 1000% will be reading the other books in this series!

ka_ke's review against another edition

I got bored. The book is predictably dystopian. 

I’m all for rallying the people against the oppressors, I think these stories are truly important, however there has to be a way to get the point across in less pages or with faster pacing. 

Also… you can tell a hetero-cis-male wrote the series.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Cursing, Death, Gaslighting, Slavery, Confinement, Violence, War, Gore, Misogyny, Body horror, Bullying, Classism, Body shaming, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Abandonment, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Medical content, Alcohol, Medical trauma, Sexual content, and Rape

mollysbooklist's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? No

3.0

It felt like an American author trying really hard to write in various British accents and Irish accents. I found it distracting and made the plot more convoluted than necessary. 

The audiobook narration was okay. I think I would’ve enjoyed this more if it had been a physical/e-book vs. the audiobook. I think the narration highlighted the problems of the writing. 

*Accents haven’t previously been an issue for me so it was surprising how distracting it was with this book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Slavery, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, Classism, Gaslighting, Gore, Misogyny, Bullying, and Death

Moderate: Sexual assault, Torture, and Fatphobia

Minor: Cannibalism

joshoonet's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

• I expected the protagonist to be more impulsive and to make annoying, irrational decisions since he's 16-18 years old, but he can actually use his brain! Positive surprise there
• Read this in like 3 sessions, because i got lost in it completely
• FOR SURE gonna buy the whole trilogy (?) and read it asap
• The plot isn't reinventing the wheel here, but it's an interesting take on the "YA-trilogy/dystopian/uprising" kind of genre. The way this book ended, I'm left wondering what the protagonist will decide in the future, when hard decisions have to be made.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Cursing, Death, and War

Moderate: Slavery, Grief, Rape, Death of parent, Gore, Sexual assault, Animal death, Blood, and Excrement

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Bullying, and Cannibalism

Classism: the society in the book is separated into different "colors" (not skin colors) which act like castes, and the ones high in the hierarchy see everyone else as less than. Death of parent:

the protagonist's father dies by hanging prior to the starting point of the book. It isn't described in too much detail, the protagonist is not actively grieving.

Grief (and for what character!):

the protagonist's wife dies by hanging as an act of martyrdom. She is mentioned all through the story, her dream is what keeps the main character going. The writing style doesn't strike me as very emotional, but it's clear that he loved and misses her.

War, Slavery and ALL OTHERS:

the protagonist gets into an academy, where the students must try to defend their own house and take over the others'. Think of Capture the Flag but over the span of ~a year and pretty serious. Students aren't technically supposed to kill each other, but sometimes they do. Some (very few, and only in the first half) rape some female students; this is not described in detail. By touching students of other houses with one's own flag, they become that house's "slave". They can technically break that "oath", but are then shunned. They are all freed by the end of the game.

itendswithe's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

This book follows a boy crafted to lead a rebellion against a caste-based society that is reinforced by selective breeding. Also, it's on mars.

It starts with a close look at the rough life in a low-caste mining community before throwing you into a Hunger Games-esque war simulation.

This book has a great premise, but the level of brutality was hard for me.

I would recommend checking out this book if the description intrigues you, but maybe look at the content warnings before diving in. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, War, Slavery, Murder, Classism, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Child death, and Medical content

Moderate: Cursing, Self harm, Stalking, Rape, Sexual assault, Bullying, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Animal death, Cannibalism, and Death of parent