Grant Gardner’s Reviews > Red Rising > Status Update

"Sometimes I'm the fool, but tonight I'm feeling smart."

Story of my life lmaooo

Just finished Chapter 9 and wow. Ppl weren’t kidding when they said Brown doesn’t give a shit about your feelings

God, I want to binge this series so bad. IDK where the Black people are tbh, it seems like the Society is mostly made up of white people? Kind of weird in a story about the nature/power of Humanity. But I’m loving it. If it weren’t for college prep and all that shit, I would have finished this book already.

I need to look into finding Golden Son and Morning Star to purchase, as well as the next books too.

At this point, I'm concerned RR will fall into the power trap, where authors write about the conflict between those with power and those without, yet the author gets distracted by "ooh cool flashy power!" and the story completely forgets about those without power, thus proving the story's theme wrong and the antagonists right: ONLY people with power matter. PLEASE don't let all the important characters be Gold.

At this point, I'm concerned RR will fall into the power trap, where authors write about the conflict between those with power and those without, yet the author gets distracted by "ooh cool flashy power!" and the story completely forgets about those with power, thus proving the story's theme wrong. PLEASE don't let all the important characters be gold. Mayb we make the story about MC forgetting who he's fighting for.

Once again, I am just shook with the amount of literacy and theme this novel has the potential to expand upon. Race, becoming what you hate, biogenetics, epigenetics, rebellion, revenge, power, greed, HOLY CRAP dude. Usually, if someone said "fantasy is shallow," I would give them Dune or the ASOIAF or something. I don't want to judge a book when I'm only 95 pages in but this is friggin deep

Once again, I am just shook with the amount of literacy and theme this novel has the potential to expand upon. Race, becoming what you hate, biogenetics, epigenetics, rebellion, revenge, power, greed, HOLY CRAP dude. Usually, if someone said "fantasy is shallow," I would give them Dune or the ASOIAF or something. I don't want to judge a book when I'm only 95 pages in but this is friggin deep

I want to know what all the colors do!!! I can't wait for space battles and shit either, I can tell this is going to become a new favorite of mine. Lke, oi boi, this is going to be quite the story. I will need to study this for a while, in order to better write an infiltration plot, but bloodydamn this story is tight! We stan Darrow RAHH

Also Eo is a queen. These female characters that show up just to have this profound, beautiful moral tragedy are so interesting to me. Reflects society in a way. Adena, despite how much I hate Powerless was my faorite character besides Kitt for this reason. Besides that, the themes really are quite profound. Lots about slavery and opression that I didn't expect, actually. This... isn't your typical rebellion story...

This is a book. It is interesting. I like it so far, the worldbuilding is cool. Showering without water is disgusting. I don’t care how clean it is. Darrow has a fun personality. I like revenge. I am excited. I hope this book doesn’t disappoint me.