A review by christinas11
Red Rising by Pierce Brown

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

eBook & Audio. I didn't dislike it and honestly, it was 3 stars until about 60-70% through when I started enjoying it a bit more and gained a half star, but I didn't really enjoy it overall. The writing was very good and the story was fine, it just didn't hit with me. I realized I hadn't read a male main character book in a few months and maybe I just don't like them because I started liking it most when a female character came in much later. They say it's like Hunger Games but in space and those are my two favorite things lol. But this wasn't that. This was nothing like Hunger Games. It's a different vibe with a different structure, motivation, and character behavior. It was a no thanks from me. If they tell you it's like Fourth Wing but space, they lie. Are there some likable characters, yes, but they don't get enough attention. I strongly disliked this book early on and that lightened only a little through the first 50-60%. I switched to audio to push through. I can't stress enough, I actually thought the writing was decent. Like that saying, a book can be good and I can still dislike it or a book can be bad and I can still like it. I could understand people loving this. It didn't help that when I started it I thought it was about dragons and I was really confused about the space part. But Andy Weir is a favorite author of mine so space is normally right up my alley. This wasn't 'really' space though. This was SINO, space in name only. ;)
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