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Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)

Pierce Brown

Start date: July 1, 2017

Finish date: July 31, 2017

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Sep 01, 2017 Lanko rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: bingo17, 2017, rc2017n-e

I actually did read reviews about it before getting it, specially the hilarious ones with very good points on why the book would most likely fall apart for me.

So it comes as a surprise that despite starting it with all that ill predisposition towards it, I still found it extremely good.

The start isn't very promising but looking back now I don't know how it could be improved. But it really caught my attention the fact that the author wasn't gonna spare anyone and anything could happen.

The tests, I actually did read reviews about it before getting it, specially the hilarious ones with very good points on why the book would most likely fall apart for me.

So it comes as a surprise that despite starting it with all that ill predisposition towards it, I still found it extremely good.

The start isn't very promising but looking back now I don't know how it could be improved. But it really caught my attention the fact that the author wasn't gonna spare anyone and anything could happen.

The tests, the battle royale (with isn't really a full-out battle royale), the dystopian society, the main character who is a main symbol... I'm sure people will easily point out Hunger Games, Divergent, and a myriad of other dystopian, sci-fi and similar books.

But for me Red Rising is far better than those.

Contrary to Hunger Games, the main character isn't protected to look good and pure by the author and really has to make morally questionable choices, kill people he rather not and so on.
The politics are much deeper and much more fleshed out than in HG. And as the game will show you, its society, classes and politics aren't really set in stone.
The battles are bloody, but it's actually possible to win the game without anybody dying, even though it would be really hard. The simulation of an Ancient Age world and let people fend for themselves felt really good.
And this is a competition that happens for months (or maybe more than a year?) and this long time living in this situation really makes some people lose it and become animals.

I did have eye-rolling moments. Some questionable or convenient moments. Or how the references to other works didn't feel like references by the way they so loudly screamed which work they were inspired from.

But how Brown slowly unfolds his characters, their connections and more aspects of them, how he layers the grounds for things to happen both in the near and far future... that was so skillfully done that made me quickly and easily brush away the book's faults, even the glaring ones.
And at first I thought all those side characters would just be at best archetypes, but slowly they keep becoming more and more nuanced, though some do stay that way. And others surprise you.

Even how the book reminds you that Darrow is the hope, symbol of etc etc, started to feel a distraught trying-to-be-tough boy convincing himself than the book telling you how to feel/see the character.

Forward to Golden Son!
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Dec 10, 2015 Renata rated it it was amazing

Shelves: read-2016

Woooowwwwww!! OMG THIS BOOK IS AWESOME.

5 thousand glowing stars.
I loved every single thing about this book. I'm in shock. I didn't expect to enjoy it the way I did. It was perfection. This guy, Pierce Brown, knows what he is doing. Amazing!! Next book asap!!!! ...more

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Dec 13, 2016 Raquel V rated it really liked it

Shelves: desafio-lh-2016, on-my-shelf

Em português: Furia Vermelha - muito bem escrito, mas muito parecido com outras coisas que eu já li (Jogos Vorazes em especial), só que no espaço.

This book is well written, with complex characters, realistic emotions, and a rich depiction of the world. I really liked this first one, and loved the rest of the books in the trilogy.

BUT it isn't anything special in terms of idea (it had a very adult-Hunger-Games vibe), in terms of credibility (I didn't buy the premise at all until the second book. ...more

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Jul 11, 2019 Tainá Hilaricki rated it did not like it

Eu me sinto tão enganada.

Eu não sei nem por onde começar com essa porcaria. Ok, por partes então:

Chato pra cacete. Eu não consegui sentir nada por esse livro, exceto é claro, ódio por estar me sujeitando a ele (o ódio foi tão intenso que eu me senti compelida a ler até o final pra poder falar mal com propriedade), mas o enredo em si? Eu provavelmente teria dormido se não estivesse tão revoltada.

A mensagem politica é risível. Na verdade, eu não tenho muita certeza de qual foi a mensagem polític ...more

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