Casey Blackbird’s Reviews > Red Rising > Status Update

I take back what I said about the narrative pace

I dislike how much I like Sevro/Goblin

I’m still enjoying this, but, two things: (1) the timeline in the castle is making me scratch my head; (2) the movements from section to section are very drastic, and the feel of the novel changes every 75 pages or so.

So, I’m still a little worn out on dystopian stuff. The sparing prose and a moody first-person narrator almost pushed me off in the first 20 pages. But, this is compelling writing and I’m hooked and read nearly 100 pages the first day so there’s that.