Reviews tagging 'Xenophobia'

Red Rising by Pierce Brown

17 reviews

nicain's review

dark emotional hopeful tense medium-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Death, Slavery, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Xenophobia, Medical content, and Medical trauma

loru's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

This is a reread for me and I enjoyed even more than the first time I read this story. Being able to compare thee characters from where they started to where they are is great. It's also awesome to see the development of the themes. It is a slower build in the beginning, but has enough hooks to keep you interested. The action scenes are well written and exciting. The character moments and dynamics are also great. Darrow, the MC, is exhilarating to follow.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Xenophobia, Slavery, Violence, and Sexual assault

Some people compare this book to the Hunger Games. While there are similarities, the characters, goals, and scope are different. The scope also expands greatly in the rest if the series and the similarities end by then.

lilac_rose's review against another edition

challenging tense slow-paced

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

3.75

The first half was okay but not worth near the hype this book recieved. With a barley valed anology for the british empire and a pretty bad caste system it just wasn't enjoyable. But, at about 65% through the book it get really good.

The introduction of mustang makes this book go from okay to really good.

I think I will take a break between now and reading the next one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Sexual assault, and Violence

Moderate: Xenophobia and Torture

romina_elizabeth's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

I don't give it 5 stars because of the bits of romance (I generally don't like romance in these types of books).

But I actually really loved this. I don't read this genre much, but I'm so glad I decided to give this one a chance.
I am HOOKED.

And, yes, Brown is right, I'm 90% sure that I'm going to bloodydamn love these books.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Violence, Toxic friendship, Bullying, Classism, Xenophobia, War, Torture, Slavery, Murder, Stalking, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Sexual violence

4ny's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Torture, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Slavery, Colonisation, and Xenophobia

caro9's review

medium-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia and Colonisation

Moderate: Rape and Sexism

lutareem's review

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Xenophobia, Slavery, and Violence

Minor: Rape

linkwoodpub's review

dark emotional tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

Incredible execution on a very cheesy premise. It took me a long time to dive in, but once I did it was an absolute rollercoaster (in a good way). 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Torture, Toxic relationship, War, Vomit, Fire/Fire injury, Hate crime, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual harassment, Racism, Rape, Death, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Classism, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Medical content, Xenophobia, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Slavery

haley49's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

This was very violent and graphic but so so powerful. This world explores the violence of power hierarchies. The caste system is not perfect nor is the world explored entirely but it does such a good job at what it tries to. It is a slow burn corruption arc where the mmc just barely figures out his errors but the ending still leaves room for doubt. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Violence, Death, Classism, Murder, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Torture, Slavery, War, Physical abuse, Death of parent, Rape, Xenophobia, and Sexism

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