Red Rising by Pierce Brown
Posted by Yuma County Library
Reviewed by: Andrew Zollman
What I Read: Red Rising by Pierce Brown
What It's About: The Earth is dying.
Darrow is a Red, a miner in the interior of Mars. His mission is to extract
enough precious elements to one day tame the surface of the planet and allow
humans to live on it. The Reds are humanity's last hope. Or so it appears,
until the day Darrow discovers it's all a lie. That Mars has been habitable -
and inhabited - for generations, by a class of people calling themselves the Golds.
A class of people who look down on Darrow and his fellows as slave labour, to
be exploited and worked to death without a second thought. Until the day that
Darrow, with the help of a mysterious group of rebels, disguises himself as a
Gold and infiltrates their command school, intent on taking down his oppressors
from the inside. But the command school is a battlefield - and Darrow isn't the
only student with an agenda.
What I Thought: Did you like the hunger games trilogy? Were
you looking for something similar but more adult in content? Red Rising is just that. With a gritty
main character, plenty of plot development and lots of action, you get just
that. The novel follows Darrow along on this terrifying journey from being the
lowest of the low as a Red to the highest honor of a Gold, describing his
triumphs and the pitfalls he finds along the way. The story is not for the
faint of heart, but it is edgy and pushes you to follow along. I know this is
short, I’m giving you that much more time to go and pick the book up to read it
yourself.
Readalikes: Hunger
Games by Suzanne Collins (Although this is a bit grittier).
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