I just read Red Rising (Book 1) for the first time... Wow
To clraify I have not read any of the other books so please do not spoil or hint to anything else later down in the series thank you. I didn't read the authours letter in the begining because I was worried it might spoil stuff. Each bold is a section with a spoiler that you can click on relating to specfic points. (Its a little jumbled so I do apolgise, I read the book a lot in two weeks like got to the last 7 chapters but slowly gnawed my way through the remaining because I don't have another book to read on this trip I am on :(.)
Overall thoughts:
Wow... that was... intense and I can't wait to see what happens more...
I love the concept as a dystopian novel in mars.
I love these names... all of them are so cool and relate to so many differnt things. I LOVE it. They come from so many different ones. Will say there is a lot of chrachters that sometimes its hard to keep up with but my favourites are 1. Mustang 2. Eo 3. Severo 4. Darrow
Pacing of book
>!I will say the begining moved super fluidly and quickly as well as the ending seemed so ending quickly. The middle was long and I was very suprised that it went that long but the more i read i relised THE game was the main focus of this book and not the !<
Darow / Love
>! I am glad Mustang/ Virginia is a decent person it seems with bringing her Twin Brother to !<>!Adrius /!<>!Jackel, but I still love how although we didn't experience EO much as a chrachter, we still know enough that darow loves them dearly. Will he move on? Seems like it tbh... I will say... I hope Darow stays loving to EO. I'd rather him be friends w Mustang/Virginia but idk. I feel like that could go wrong very quickly with my later point about son of ares/ severo. !<
>!Also relating to love... Poor Lea omg... also why is Rogue than still alive? Like he was awesome for sure, (I have a feeling that he and jackel will become allies as that seems logical with maybe cassius joining and his family joining? The only reason why rogue would be alive is if author wants to break my heart in him turning from a cool beloved chrachter to a hated chrachter...) but I guess him coming back or darow not realsing he was still alive is intersting. What is the author planning for his comeback... like sure he can be an ally but thats not what i expect!<
Dancer/Harmony/ Mickey/ Mateo/ Evey/ Modification Process:
>!I got a lot of idk angst when reading that / it seemed really painful which just shows how good and how i appriciete the writing. Also I really don't like what Mickey was doing to Evev. I don't know if they will show up again, but I hope Evev is ok. I think Dancer and Harmony will, don't know about the others. Pinks in general... honestly I would rather be a Red than a Pink... The whole caste/ colour system is intersting and its something that I hope is explored more. !<
Son of Ares
>!unclear who they are but Darow I guess is trusting of them. Also the last bit in that where Severo says that the strom was bad cut the audio or whatevr and darow mentions his last few words was Bloody damn and then was like... What does sevro know or not. My theory Severo & his father Fletchner, are connected if not one of the main leaders in son of ares. It explains why severo never wants to leave darrows side and why fletcher tried to protect darow a lot. Also Titus you poor raging...red!<>!​!<
The game:
>!holy that was a lot... futuristic but also medivial kinda battle royale teams but it was nice.. and different than the hunger games which i adore too. Also im so sad for Julian but I knew right as Julian met Darrow... it was going to happen... just knew it...!<
Darrow Part 2 About him:
>!I love the compexity of his chrachter, he isn't ofc perfect in any sense even if he was molded to be perfect. He thinks critically, sometimes acts rash but i really like him as a narrator. I will say he has a lot to learn defiently still but flawed main chrachters make the best chrachters!<
Also... I want to look at fan art of al; the chrachters but i worry for spoilers
Anyway I need to reread this book because there was defiently things i probally need to refresh on houses / main gold conflicts. because theres the houses in the game and thenn theres houses outside of the game...