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Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)

Pierce Brown

Start date: May 12, 2015

Finish date: May 31, 2015

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Jan 17, 2015 Vickie rated it it was amazing

Shelves: booksthatmakemegowow, keeper-shelf, nook, audible, 2022

YA dystopian future is the hip genre these days. Like all hip genres, it can get a little overwhelming since everyone seems to want to get on the hip bandwagon. Winnowing out the gems can be daunting, but worth it when the reader finds a book like this.
Not set on Earth like most dystopian novels, RED RISING is set on Mars of the future. The circumstances are very relatable to current times here. Separate color-coded castes of people with the extremely wealthy being the extremely powerful while e ...more

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Sep 11, 2016 Amanda rated it it was ok

Shelves: sci-fi, book-club, young-adult, futuristics, 2-stars, dystopian

Scifi BookClub Sept 2016 / Audiobook:

I have so many strong, problem opinions about and reactions to this book. I the wave of loving a series like The Expanse, and picking this book for the Scifi BookClub because the second in the series was voted Goodread's Best Scifi for 2015, I expected a lot of this book......and I got absolutely nothing back.

The main character is superhuman and arrogant a lot of the time. A wife is friged, as an in-chatacter choice, just for the pushing of the male main ch ...more

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Dec 10, 2013 Ami rated it it was ok

This book received such fabulous reviews on Goodreads that I thought I'd be smitten as well. While the book is a fast read, it's not one I loved. The best way I can describe it is as a grown-up version of the Rick Riordan Percy Jackson series, but grown-up in that there is a lot of violence and sex, not that there are especially advanced topics introduced.

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