After DNF-ing this book for 3 times, i finally finished this book now.

Red Rising is the first book in the Red Rising saga by Pierce Brown. Maybe because of the writing style or because of the one dimensional characters or because of the Young Adult Genre, i don't like this book that much.

The story of this book revolves around Darrow a low Red who after a tragedy in his life, trying to stage a revolution towards the higher class peoples. When you hear that plot line, its awesome but like i mentioned above, due to some reason, i couldn't enjoy this book. I have DNF'd this book within 100 pages 3 times before and a main reason for this is the plot based writing and the character of Darrow.

Most of the book is written in a very fast pace for me and for a character based reader like me, when things are happening very fast, you cant enjoy the book for the characters and the pain they go through. Without understanding the character very well, everything written in a book would be words and those words doesn't mean anything or impact the reader very much. I think thats why i didn't liked this book as much as i wanted to.

For most of the book, the character Darrow reminded me more of Tau from "The Rage of Dragons" but even though both books are plot based and kind of shares the same over arching plot, i liked Rage of Dragons more because the character development was there for him more than i got it for Darrow. After nearly 75% of this book, i got some character development and flaws of Darrow and i liked him somewhat to finish the remaining book without complaining.

Only because of those last 25%, i am giving this book a 3 stars or else it would have been 1 star only. Also, even though i wont continue with this series normally, because so many reader mention that this series goes on a different and on a good way from book 2, i am willing to continue this series. ( )

4.5/5
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Very good, quick read ( )

Not my usual choice, but good enough that I’d like to read the next in the trilogy. ( )

A miner of Mars discovers that he has been told lies all his life, but the ruling class of "Golds". His unique abilities get him picked to secretly subvert society by becoming a surgically altered Gold and entering their competition that determines who rises to the top of the top. The competition is very Lord of the Flies or Hunger Games like, with rival factions of students battling to the death. Parts of the book where overly long and detailed, but it is a fascinating read and set up to a series that is like a soap opera or political intrigue battle for more quality in society. ( )