4.5⭐️ Just. Just wait. Wait a damn minute. Give me a fucking second. WHAT????“He thinks men like me weak. He thinks me dumb, feeble, subhuman. I was not raised in palaces. I did not ride horses through meadows and eat meals of hummingbird tongues. I was forged in the bowels of this hard world. Sharpened by hate. Strengthened by love. He is wrong. None of them will survive.”That is how you start a damn book. Let me just say this. The first half I liked it, but I wasn’t sure if I could see myself ...

“Break the chains, my love.” Darrow has lived his entire life underground. He lives, breaths and works thousands of meters below the surface as part of the "Reds" (lowest caste of his society) whose task is to terraform Mars for the generations to come.Despite the cold, the dark and the damp, he is happy.His society is poor in food but rich in love, dance and song. He married Eo, the love of his life, and they are ready to start a family.But then, he learns.He learns that humanity is already on...

I went into Red Rising with high expectations, but I came out of it mostly disappointed. This story could have been so much more, but it suffers heavily from a few negatives that really hobble it.Though this book is told from the perspective of protagonist Darrow, I feel like I hardly know him even after following him through the whole story. He comes across as rather bland and one-dimensional, with the only obvious trait of being rather full of himself. He's constantly reminding the reader how ...

BIGGGGGG DNFHoly effing hell, people.Or should. I say. Holy. Effing. Helldiver. All I can say is... Seriously though, I was expecting some uber Sci-Fi awesomeness here and I feel like I got shafted with some broke ass YA that took itself waaaaaaay too seriously without having any actual sincerity. There is NO way I could have been reading the same book as everyone else. That's gotta be it. My local library must have accidentally supplied me with the staccato-speak, melodramatic version of this t...

4.5/5 Stars Let’s get the two most asked questions about this book out of the way first. 1. Is this book specifically geared toward the YA audience?No, it’s not. The only thing in this book that fits the YA genre is that Darrow’s (The MC) age starts at 16 years old in the beginning. That’s it. Everything else, the writing, plot, themes, and world-building, in my opinion, belong in the adult territory. I'd say this is a hybrid. An adult novel that can be enjoyed by both YA and adult readers.2. Is...

(Minor spoilers follow) Red Rising introduces us to Darrow, a sixteen-year-old miner who toils deep in the mines of Mars a few hundred years in the future. In Darrow's world, humanity has spread across the solar system, and has been organized into a strict caste system of colors, with Gold at the top and Red at the bottom. Darrow is a Red, but he is making the most of his hard life in the mines. He is good at his work. He has a beautiful wife Eo (they get married young and die young down in the ...

Gah!! Look at the new FairyLoot Editions I got! UPDATE:OMG! Look at the new B&N hardback edition! I can't even people! There is some artwork inside too but the cover!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!When I first read the book I must have been on crack, because it went from 4 stars to 5 and my favorites list! It's bloodydamn awesome! Let me just say the second time around listening to it on audio was fanfreakingtastic! The narrator nails it and there is a song in the book and...

Actual rating: 2.5 “Darrow. Come here. Come.” He grabs my shoulder and pulls me in. “Others may have failed. But you’ll be different, Darrow. I feel it in my bones.” I'm sorry, was I supposed to feel something?I suppose boredom is a feeling. Not a single tear was shed. Not for a single instance was a single emotion heightened. It was by no means a bad book, but the message got lost in the telling, and there is just. So. Much. Telling. The writing is fantastic, but the plot just didn't ...

“I am the Reaper and death is my shadow.” 2 1/2 stars. Red Rising isn't really a bad book - 2.5 stars still means halfway between "it was ok" and "I liked it", after all. And many other reviews will tell you how amazing most people found it, but I struggled to locate the magic that so many other people seem to have found within its pages. Red Rising is considered and marketed as dystopian/sci-fi, which technically it is, but it reads with a dense wordiness that is reminiscent of high fantasy...

*I received this ARC in exchange for an honest review and honestly? I BLOODYDAMN LOVED IT*You think you’ve read a dystopian book? Quit lying to yourself. That was teenage angst wrapped in a shiny new package, cashing in on the popularity of this genre.You think you’ve read about evil futuristic regimes? Nope, those were one dimensional villains that will look cartoony compared the assholes in this book.You think you’ve seen hurt and suffering and despair and heartache? You’ve seen nothing.You th...