A review by andyslibrary42
Red Rising by Pierce Brown

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

4.0

*spoilers* I really enjoyed the first book in this series! The world it takes place in is really unique and has an interesting set up. The plot was extremely fast paced for the most part. Some moments towards the second half did drag just a bit, but all of the battle scenes were really intense to make up for the slow parts leading up to those action sequences. There were a lot of fun characters, but I really don’t feel like some of them were developed enough - especially Mustang because this book pushes her to be a main character in the last section and who I assume will be the love interest, so hopefully we get to know more about her in the next books. My biggest issue with this book was the author writing about women being SA’d constantly and even trying to make us feel sympathy for a character who was doing that? It felt a bit overwhelming, and there were a lot of comments and jokes made about the pink class (by the MC too) that I didn’t really like. Aside from that I did read this super quickly and enjoyed most of it! I am looking forward to continuing this series.