10000_years_bc 's review for:

Red Rising by Pierce Brown

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring 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

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You could easily mistake Red Rising for another Hunger Games knockoff, but if that made you write this series off, you'd be doing yourself a disservice. Pierce Brown has a gift of breaking down sweeping space epics into microcosms where we follow Darrow's adventures at The Institute, where the children of the galaxy's most privileged learn the art of war, against the backdrop of a much larger political agenda. I loved this book and the other two in the Red Rising trilogy (I know there's a whole series now), to me this is about as good as the Sci Fi genre gets. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Minor: Rape, Cannibalism, Colonisation