A review by powkaye
Red Rising by Pierce Brown

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

This book and series is very very grim dark. In my experience this is overlooked by reviewers who gush over the overall story and world building which is great but won’t prepare you for how dark this world is. I could only make it 100 pages into book two when I felt nauseous and dnf the rest of the series. Buyer beware.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Rape, Sexism, Torture, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Kidnapping, Cannibalism, and Colonisation

You are told that it get better from the first book but with 100 pages of book two

babies are getting their heads bashed in