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4.39 AVERAGE
4.39 AVERAGE
adventurous
challenging
dark
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
dark
emotional
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:
N/A
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
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
challenging
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:
Complicated
Wow, just wow. This was book two of what I believe started as a trilogy but what is now 6 books. I personally enjoyed this one better than the first.
“We are all just wounded souls stumbling about in the dark, desperately trying to stitch ourselves together, hoping to fill the holes they ripped in us.”
This book picks up about 2 years after the last left off. Darrow has been living as a Gold for a few years now and rising the ranks. I admittedly did not expect to cry as hard as I did but there were some really powerful and emotional moments.
There’s themes of love, loyalty, & found family, but there’s also themes of vulnerability & trust, promptly followed by betrayal & revenge.
I have to wait way too long to get my hands on the next one. But I am shook at the way this has played out.
🌶️ open door scene in ch 43
🤬 there is moderate use of explicit language used throughout
CW/TW: slavery, class discrimination, murder, torture, blood & gore, war wound recovery
Quotes I loved:
“How cruel a life, that the sight of my dead wife means hope.”
“I understand there is power in being practical, in owning things. People. Ideas. Infrastructure. So much more important than money.”
“He always thinks because I’m reading, I’m not doing anything. There is no greater plague to an introvert than the extroverted.”
“Some have reasoned me mad. Some have called me brave. Tonight, I am both.
“ Humans, no matter their Color, are fragile as doves in the meat grinder of war.”
“In another life you would have been one of my sons, Darrow. I would have found you earlier, before whatever happened that filled you with this rage. I would not have raised you to be a great man. There is no peace for great men. I would have had you be a decent one. I would have given you the quiet strength to grow old with the woman you love.”
“Tactus was always my friend. He just got lost in trying to be the man his family wanted him to be, when all along his friends loved the man he already was.”
“Wisdom is found in the heart, not the head.”
“Strip a man of what he loves, and what is he left? Just hate. Just anger. But he was the first to know there could be something more.”
adventurous
dark
emotional
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
emotional
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:
Complicated
adventurous
dark
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
The series found it's stride in book 2 of the series, the YA tones of book 1 are gone and this book is a stronger sci-fi story. It definitely wears its Game of Thrones influence on its sleeve and has some of the hiccups of being the "dark" middle novel of a series but was a solid read.
An incredible story. Truly everything I enjoy about the experience of reading a saga can be found in here. The kind of book that was so tense I'd feel nervous to pick it up to continue, and so gripping I'd struggle to fall asleep afterwards.
It's brutal and unforgiving, but the payoff can be just as sweet as the teardowns are sour.
Every concern I had from Red Rising #1 was contextualized in a way that gave me a deeper appreciation for how the author approached this series.
It's brutal and unforgiving, but the payoff can be just as sweet as the teardowns are sour.
Every concern I had from Red Rising #1 was contextualized in a way that gave me a deeper appreciation for how the author approached this series.
adventurous
reflective
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:
Complicated
adventurous
dark
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated