The yearlong game the kids are thrown into felt as muddled
to me as it did to them, I just got to be clean and warm while experiencing it.
No one really knew what the heck was happening just that they didn’t want to be
enslaved, and the time would eventually run out to return to the real world.
For a while, I wondered why the author seemed to speed thru Darrow’s
transformation from Red to Gold to play the game for sooo long but it was to
highlight the nuisances of change to Darrow’s core that have to happen to make
Eo’s wish and dream come true. The writing tempo fits the speed of action and
storytelling. I love getting to know the other characters (Sevro and Mustang
especially) and how they might help or hinder Darrow in what his new future
will be. *insert a long wolf howl* I so want Darrow to be right- the game, the
world is changing, it’s not just his feelings of being top wolf in school. I
cannot wait for these kids to get showers with bars of soap and tubes of
toothpaste. I cannot imagine the cloud of smell the surrounds them.
This book is just an epic rollercoaster, and I can’t help
but join the fans of Red Rising. I also am just mystified at what Pierce Brown
has in store for us knowing it’s a 7-book series! Again, the number of things
that happened in book 1 was incredible. If I had to do a general feeler for who
might like this book, beyond sci-fi lovers (It all takes place on Mars and
surrounding planets! This was new for me as well). I feel like lovers of The
Hunger Games, Game of Thrones, Fourth Wing, maybe Brandon Sanderson, maybe
Joe Abercrombie, would love this series to fill their reading droughts with.
