Red Rising
Pierce Brown
Feb 2014 · Recorded Books · Narrated by Tim Gerard Reynolds
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Ender, Katniss, and now Darrow."-- Scott Sigler Pierce Brown' s relentlessly entertaining debut channels the excitement of The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and Ender' s Game by Orson Scott Card. " I live for the dream that my children will be born free," she says. " That they will be what they like. That they will own the land their father gave them." " I live for you," I say sadly. Eo kisses my cheek. " Then you must live for more." Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future. Like his fellow Reds, he works all day, believing that he and his people are making the surface of Mars livable for future generations. Yet he spends his life willingly, knowing that his blood and sweat will one day result in a better world for his children. But Darrow and his kind have been betrayed. Soon he discovers that humanity reached the surface generations ago. Vast cities and sprawling parks spread across the planet. Darrow-- and Reds like him-- are nothing more than slaves to a decadent ruling class. Inspired by a longing for justice, and driven by the memory of lost love, Darrow sacrifices everything to infiltrate the legendary Institute, a proving ground for the dominant Gold caste, where the next generation of humanity' s overlords struggle for power. He will be forced to compete for his life and the very future of civilization against the best and most brutal of Society' s ruling class. There, he will stop at nothing to bring down his enemies . . . even if it means he has to become one of them to do so.
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Peter Crawford (WH40k Stop Motion Battles)
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August 14, 2019
the longer this book went on, the more I found myself siding with the golds, short sighted left wing bias was highlighted at the end when those remaining had no realistic plan for the future. I liked the book but hated it at the same time, if the protagonist was not so far left it would have been a cracker of a series.
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Lenore Kosinski
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May 28, 2022
3 stars — Well darn. I don’t know what book everyone else read, but apparently I am wholeheartedly in the minority within my bookish friends. My hubby and I listened to this one, and it took over *3* months for us to get through this. Brett would be like “wanna listen to another chapter?” and I would *sigh* and maybe say yes or maybe say no. To say I wasn’t compelled for, say, two third’s of this book is pretty accurate. There were some great highlights and exciting moments...
Jeff Smithers
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February 1, 2019
super awesome book, wish they would of made a movie out of this book. instead of hunger games. just because this book goes more into detail. still hungers games is a good movie.
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About the author
Pierce Brown worked as a manager of social media at a startup tech company, on the Disney lot at ABC Studios, as an NBC page, and as an aide on a U.S. Senate campaign. He is the author of the Red Rising Trilogy. Morning Star, Book 3 of the Red Rising Trilogy, made the New York Times ebook bestseller list in 2016.
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