Red Rising 1: Red Rising - Pierce Brown

Darrow is a Helldiver. A pioneer of Mars.Born to slave beneath the earth so that one day, future generations might live above it.He is a Red - humankind's lowest caste. But he has something the Golds - the ruthless ruling class - will never understand.He has a wife he worships, a family who give him strength. He has love.And when they take that from him, all that remains is revenge.

Cover

Nothing special, doesn't really give me much insight of the book either. I don't like it, the cover could have looked way cooler because it is a dystopian.

Darrow 

Eh, as much as I like having a male protagonist, Darrow was not my favourite person. The school he was attending was hard, like really, death-hard, but he felt so human less to me, even with Eo (his wife) and his love for her. The choices he made, as hard as they might have been for him, disappointed me. Darrow isn't a heartless person, but he wasn't what I expected him to be. And I know that the tragedies he faced changed him, that's one of the Dystopia-genre characteristics, and I think that's also because I am not really a fan of Dystopia? 

See, here is where I lose my ideas. There were so many characters, I have no idea which character to write about. I could write about Mustang, but do we I really know much about her? Not really. I like Darrow and Mustang together, I want to see their relationship develop.  So many other characters I liked either died or betrayed Darrow I really don't know who to write about without spoilering everything. 

Ending & Overall Opinion

Lot of fighting, lot of death, missing people coming back, and more I can't remember. It didn't really leave an impression on me, nothing in this whole book really did. There were so many new terms thrown in the beginning that it was really hard to get into this book. Then it got good when they were making Darrow into a Gold, and the first chapters where he was in their society. But then it kind of got boring again. I expected me to read this book way faster, but I just couldn't get through it all that fast. I did read all of it, but it cost me a lot of time. 

The problem with this book is, I didn't think there was anything new, I'm pretty sure that all of it's been done before. I do not recommend this book. Yes, the writing was good, but it's just so much! I hope that the second book is better.

I will still be reading the second book, and sometimes the second book in a series is better so I have my hopes up. 3/5 stars for this one though.

Dominique