Red Rising

by Pierce Brown

English language

Published Dec. 22, 2018

ISBN:: 978-1-5241-0492-4
OCLC Number:: 1028946444

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Melissa reviewed Red Rising by Pierce Brown

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No rating

This might be both my fastest DNF to date, and a surprising one. I always have a soft spot for scifi generally, and am especially compelled by any intersection of labor and any speculative fiction.

Maybe the strongest antipathy I have is toward the protagonist, which I register is something that could just be a matter of personality. Like, I can’t say I was fond of Ignatius J. Reilly, but I was almost always interested in what he was thinking. And an important detail here is that, at least as far as I got, the protagonist is just a kid (a 16-year-old boy) living a nightmare.

But as I read more, I realize more often that I’m always working with a finite and fluctuating pool of charity toward any given book (I tried at least twice before this year to read A Confederacy of Dunces and didn’t have the patience). So, being finite, the charity I can extend to, say, Darrow, is limited by the charity I feel like I have to extend to the rest of the work. So when Darrow is occasionally not r/iamverybadass-ing around and I read this:

> A cadre of Tinpots eye us as we trudge by over the worn concrete floor. Their Gray duroArmor is simple and tired, as unkempt as their hair. It would stop a simple blade, maybe an ion blade, and a pulseBlade or razor would go through it like paper. But we’ve only seen those on the holoCan. The Grays don’t even bother to make a show of force. Their thumpers dangle at their sides.

I spend a long time in my notes enumerating all of the tropes I hate and finding the right TVTropes url for them. I’m typing this all on a phone and, well, don’t have the patience to include them all + formatting now, but maybe will later. Or maybe I’ll find one be swept away again by one of the literally thousands of books I would like instead!

B. Zelkovich reviewed Red Rising by Pierce Brown

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4 stars

Really grim and bloody, which fits the Barcas. I liked everything but the last panel, mainly because I don't remember who the Orange character is. Otherwise, a decent addition to the Red Rising storyline.

Chris Adams reviewed Red Rising by Pierce Brown

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3 stars

This is a great summer read but I kept losing immersion wondering whether the publisher’s internal summary was “the Hunger Games at Hogwarts meets Percy Jackson”.

Daniel Darabos reviewed Red Rising by Pierce Brown

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2 stars

I read the whole trilogy in the end. It's not too bad!

I liked how the first book set off quickly. After having read Wool, I was ready to spend the whole book gradually learning what lies behind the propaganda. But slow investigation is not what this book is about.

A couple pages later, and we are in "school", in a Hunger Games battle that lasts months. It is a testosterone overdose dreamscape. All the boys are superhuman invincible body-builders. All the girls are supermodel damsels in distress. All the action is medieval. The sci-fi disappears while we watch this battle royale where everyone is just fighting with swords on horseback.

Already the worst part of the series is evident in a way. The hero is the best at everything and always wins. But that would be boring, right? So sometimes he makes a dumb mistake for no good reason …

M Is For Awesome reviewed Red Rising by Pierce Brown

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3 stars

Fun world building - Greco Roman social experiment in space - with a leaning towards classic science fiction boys own adventure novel crossed with strong Harry Potter influences.

kim karma reviewed Red Rising by Pierce Brown

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3 stars

I bought this comic yesterday at the local comic shop. I haven't read it yet because I need Tim Gerard Reynolds to come over and read it aloud.

iamd3vil reviewed Red Rising by Pierce Brown

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4 stars

I liked it but it didn't really click with me. It felt like a typical dystopian novel

Geekess reviewed Red Rising by Pierce Brown

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3 stars

This book isn't well-written. It isn't even well-edited. Repetative language, words, plot elements.
It is the same old-same old YA rebellion-in-making.
And yet... it is captivating. I love it. It touches my rebel streak.
A lot of the praise should go to the narrator, Tim Gerard Reynolds. His voiceacting brings the story to sparkling life. First the rough accent, then slowly the transformation to Gold, while still keeping that edge. Wonderful job.
Had the book been edited better and the actual writing been better, it would have earned another star. Too bad. But is a most enjoyable read, and I am looking forward to the sequels.

okenwillow reviewed Red Rising by Pierce Brown

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5 stars

Darrow a 16 ans, il est mineur et travaille dans les entrailles de Mars pour en faire un jour une planète habitable par les autres Humains restés sur Terre. Il fait partie des Rouges, la plus basse classe d’une société divisée en couleurs. Les Rouges sont une classe d’esclaves, considérés plus ou moins comme des bêtes de somme, sans réelle humanité. De manière tout à fait inattendue et dans des circonstances tragiques, le jeune mineur va se retrouver investi d’une mission qui dépasse son imagination, découvrant l’envers du décor, la réalité qui reste cachée à sa classe.
[Vous pouvez lire la suite sur mon blog, merci :)]

B. Zelkovich reviewed Red Rising by Pierce Brown

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4 stars

Finally! It took forever, but I finally finished this book! The first 250 pages, while mildly interesting, were mostly slow. As frustrating as that was, by the last 100 pages, you realize that you needed every last detail from the slow moments. And those last 100 pages were AWESOME! They completely salvaged the book for me, and earned the rating I gave it. I am ready for booo two!

Sid Mitra reviewed Red Rising by Pierce Brown

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4 stars

It's kinda the same genre as Hunger Games, but beats its hands down.

govmarley reviewed Red Rising by Pierce Brown

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3 stars

Caste systems on Mars. Teenagers playing war games at Command School with life or death consequences. Deception, disguises, and subterfuge. Welcome to Red Rising.

The first part of the book was slow, and I almost gave up on it. I did not get attached to Darrow or Eo, and did not care about their harsh life under the surface of Mars. But I found myself enjoying the story much more from Part 2 on, although the book was plodding at times and I never did get attached to Darrow. He's just too perfect. He was better at everything and it was tiring to read. But I enjoyed the politics of the story and the world building was solid. I will eventually read book 2. 3 stars.