2023 PopSugar Challenge: a book with a color in the title

Red Rising by Pierce Brown

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


Far into the future Democracy is gone and all of humanity is broken into castes designated by colors. Golds are the elite of the elite, blacks soldiers, pinks pleasure trained, browns are service and the reds... reds are the lowest of the low.

Deep underground reds are working hard terraforming Mars for civilization with the belief that if they work hard and mine the precious and rare elements only they can find, when the planet is ready, they can come above and their children's children will have a better life. But make one small infraction and a Gold will bring judgement and judgement means death.

Darrow is a young man born of the Reds of Mars. But he and his wife are caught out of bounds and sentenced to death. Eo, his wife is killed and somehow Darrow survives the hanging. From there he learns that the Deep Reds, as his people have been called by others, have been lied to. Mars has been colonized for CENTURIES and his people lied to.

He's recruited into a rebellion and he undergoes extreme surgeries so that he can pass as a Gold and infiltrate them and bring them down from the inside.

But how much of himself will Darrow allow to be changed in order to find the revenge that he so desperately seeks?

++++++

Enders Game meets Hunger Games meets the Roman Empire.

This was a good book for the Dystopian Space Genre. IF you liked Hunger Games and Divergent, I think you would like this one.



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