Red Rising
Book - 2014
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Add Age SuitabilityMeepster6299 thinks this title is suitable for between the ages of 13 and 25
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Add a QuotePower must be claimed. Wealth won. Rule, dominion, empire purchased with blood. You scar-less children deserve nothing. You do not know pain. Your do not know what your forefathers sacrificed to place you on these heights. But soon, you will. Soon, we will teach you why Gold rules mankind. And I promise, of those among you, only those few fir for power will survive.
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Add a SummaryThis was an amazing story about a young man Darrow. He lives in a futuristic world where the human race has learned to live on other planets. To organize society, the people formed a hierarchy, with Reds at the bottom and Golds at the top. His wife ends up getting hung for singing a forbidden song. A rebellion begins and Darrow infiltrates the Gold's academy. He earns the top rank in his year there and gets close with the Arch Governor of Mars.
It was captivating and I think you should read this story :)
LibraryK8
Jun 24, 2014
Darrow has the most dangerous job on Mars. He is the helldiver of Lycos, running the drill deep underground that mines Mars for valuable natural resources. Helldivers to not generally live long lives, like his father who died when he was a child. But Darrow has other plans, he is going to make something of himself, and his clan. But he can only rise so far, the caste system of society keeps his people down. They are Reds, deemed to be good at nothing but hard labor. They are ruled over by the Blues, Greys, and at the top...the Golds, the apex of human evolution.
To celebrate a particularly bountiful month in the mines, Darrow and his wife sneak off to see a big of the martian sky (a view not allowed to lowly Reds). Returning home they are caught and imprisoned for their crime. When their punishment, a whipping turns public, Eo sacrifices her life to speak out against the Golds and the caste system. She and Darrow are sentenced to die by hanging...Darrow's life is saved by the resistance movement, Eo's life is not.
The resistance tells Darrow they need him to overthrow the Golds, to prove that anyone has what it takes to be a Gold and that the colors mean nothing. Now that the Golds think he is dead, the plan is to teach Darrow to be one of them, to infiltrate their ranks, to push him into the highest ranks the government and military. Then to reveal his true origins and bring the system crashing down.
But first Darrow must survive the most grueling surgeries to remove his Red scars, a grueling initiation and finally the cruel war-games that constitute an entrance exam to the Gold academy. Can Darrow leave his old ways behind, sacrifice everything to avenge Eo?
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Add a CommentThe priorities of multilayers of loyalties are violently sorted out in a dystopia of power and corruption.
Similar to The Hunger Games but more emotionally driven, and packed with heartless villains and heart-full heroes.
The plot trajectory of the series appears to aim high.
3 books in the first universe (Iron Gold, Dark Age, and another unpublished set in a different universe - mid 2021?)
Loved the series! Brave New World meets Hunger Games. Charming characters and non fussy writing.
Takes a little getting into but after a couple of chapters , it takes off.
This series isn't in my normal genres of preference. I love it. When I first put it on my list I put off reading it because, I mean, it's some pretty heavy stuff. I didn't figure I'd like it that much. It is so engaging and entrancing. I was so invested so quickly and in it's forward momentum. As I've burned through the series (about a book a day) I've been constantly surprised. I've seen comments disparaging it in comparison to The Hunger Games. The Hunger Games is a YA series. It's written for young adults and this book is written for adults. I really feel like all the nuances of ever looming questions are touched on. Reason, morality, ethics, brutality, war, peace, life, death. There's a massive amount of depth here. Much much bigger points of significance than you'll find in YA dystopian novels. No judgement! I love those books too but these are two different species.
I enjoyed the writing, characters, and story enough that I know I will continue with the series. However, I did find myself disappointed that the entire book takes place in the training school. I was so ready to move on and it just never did. I'm hoping to learn more about the organization of the universe in the following books.
I love the book. while yes it is a lot like the Hunger games it's better. the author does a superb job. i'm reading the book for the second time and still very much enamored with the characters their struggles. it's worth reading.
speculative fiction; somewhat like Hunger games, may be more substantial than that. maybe
This book is very well written and I agree with others it is similar to the Hunger Games series. I am giving it a low rating because of what felt like excessively violent subject matter. I decided to stop reading this book a little over half way through because of the violence and discussion of rape.
A fast paced, dystopian sci-fi that readers might compare to Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games. An oppressed member of the lowest caste in their society, Darrow infiltrates the highest caste for revenge and justice, but struggles when he realizes he shares many similarities with the people supposed to be his enemies.