Review by annikamcgraw - Red Rising

annikamcgraw 's review for:

Red Rising by Pierce Brown

4.0

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

I really lived this book once I got going in it. I think that the start can be a little generic in the sense that I thought I knew what was going on and that the book would be another kind of uprising/rebellion book. I was wrong about 50 pages in, when

when a very loveable character is killed off, and you think the main character has been as well.

I think the author's writing could be a bit confusing at times, but

when Darrow is hung I did not fully understand that had happened and I had to go back and reread that section

, but at the same time this style of writing added some mysteriousness and made the reader hungry for more.

This is the perfect book for anyone who loves the Hunger Games, mixed with some 1984. The book also takes in some science fiction aspects as it is set on Mars, but is a bit gory and violent compared to other similar books. At times, I thought the author could have avoided going into areas like

rape

, but as I have reflected on the plot, I get why he did that and it did show some various aspects of

inhumanity that the Golds face when they are completing the Institute's game.

Content Warnings