{"id":4352,"date":"2014-07-29T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-29T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=4352"},"modified":"2014-07-24T16:22:26","modified_gmt":"2014-07-24T21:22:26","slug":"red-rising-by-pierce-brown-book-review-class-warfare-on-mars-to-the-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=4352","title":{"rendered":"Red Rising, by Pierce Brown (book review) – class warfare on Mars, to the death!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"book<\/a>Demokracy is a lie<\/a>.
\nMourning is forbidden.
\nLove adds fuel to vengeance!<\/p>\n

Game of Thrones<\/em>\u00a0 meets Star Wars<\/em> and Hunger Games<\/em> on the Red Planet in this rock ’em, sock ’em story, as lowest-caste Darrow is completely remade so that he can win the ultimate competition among ruling class youth and free his family and friends from slavery in the mines of Mars<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Be sure to visit the publisher’s site<\/a> and click More Inside to read the first chapters so you know how the injustices heaped upon the Reds for generations have forged Darrow into a weapon.<\/p>\n

**kmm<\/p>\n

Book info<\/strong>: Red Rising (Red Rising Trilogy #1) \/ Pierce Brown. Del Ray Spectra, 2014.\u00a0 [author site<\/a>]\u00a0 [series site<\/a>] \u00a0 [publisher site<\/a>]\u00a0 [book trailer<\/a>] Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n

My book talk<\/strong>: A quest for vengeance drives Darrow to escape slavery in Mars’ mines and beat the Gold overlords at their own game as they fight to the death for power.<\/p>\n

Deep in its hellish mines, Reds have slaved for decades so the Martian surface can become habitable, little knowing that the Red Planet is already a world of luxury.<\/p>\n

When his young wife is executed for singing the forbidden death dirge, 16 year old Darrow’s rage makes him a perfect target for the Sons of Ares, fellow Reds who’re willing to rebel against the ruling Golds – from the inside.<\/p>\n

Darrow is remade – bones re-engineered to sustain maximum impact, brain retooled for intellectual superiority, reflexes honed to matchless fighting ferocity – and enters the Institute where young Golds compete to become supreme rulers in the Solar Systems where the “noble lie of demokracy” has been stamped out.<\/p>\n

All the Reds will stay enslaved if he doesn’t survive this vicious months’ long war against teens of the various Institute houses battling for the choicest apprenticeships of power, truly battling to the death.<\/p>\n

A master strategist, a true leader, a Red in Gold’s skin, Darrow intends to win at all costs and to change society from the top down to the helldivers’ mines in this first book of the Red Rising trilogy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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