Book Title: Red Rising
Author: Pierce Brown
Series: Red Rising Saga, Book 1
Published: 28th January, 2014
Synopsis:
"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 already 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.
5 Amazing and Well Deserved Stars!
Buddy Read with my darling Darcey in our awesome Buddy Reads Group!
“Power must be claimed. Wealth won. Rule, dominion, empire purchased with blood. You scarless children deserve nothing. You do not know pain. You do not know what your forefathers sacrificed to place you on these heights. But soon, you will. Soon, we will teach you why Gold rules mankind. And I promise, of those among you, only those fit for power will survive.”
Words cannot fully describe how much I love and admire this book. This is my second time that I am reading this book but it honestly felt like it was the first time! This book had me feeling all sorts of emotions, the anger of seeing the class division within the society, the lies that were being issues to all those LowReds who are working and dying for these lies feed by the Golds. For all the pain and suffering and transformation Darrow had to go through to break those chains!
“Death isn’t empty like you say it is. Emptiness is life without freedom, Darrow. Emptiness is living chained by fear, fear of loss, of death. I say we break those chains. Break the chains of fear and you break the chains that bind us to the Golds, to the Society.”
It was all so cruel and gruesome, despicable, disgusting and disturbing and yet I loved every bloodydamn moment of it! This is not your average or easy going YA book, it’s worse and more. It is everything I crave in these types of books. I am anxious to read more about this cruel world and how Darrow will overcome this Society with his loyal partners.
Soo good, and worth the hype!
My son, my son
Remember the chains
When gold ruled with iron reins
We roared and roared
And twisted and screamed
For ours, a vale of better dreams
Be safe, read happily
~ Karen xx