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Red Rising

By: Pierce Brown
Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds
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Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future. Like his fellow Reds, he works all day, believing that he and his people are making the surface of Mars livable for future generations. Yet he spends his life willingly, knowing that his blood and sweat will one day result in a better world for his children. But Darrow and his kind have been betrayed. Soon he discovers that humanity reached the surface generations ago. Vast cities and sprawling parks spread across the planet.

Darrow - and Reds like him - are nothing more than slaves to a decadent ruling class. Inspired by a longing for justice, and driven by the memory of lost love, Darrow sacrifices everything to infiltrate the legendary Institute, a proving ground for the dominant Gold caste, where the next generation of humanity's overlords struggle for power. He will be forced to compete for his life and the very future of civilization against the best and most brutal of Society's ruling class. There, he will stop at nothing to bring down his enemies...even if it means he has to become one of them to do so.

©2013 Pierce Brown (P)2014 Recorded Books Adventure Dystopian Fantasy Fiction Science Fiction Solar System Ancient Rome Star Wars Leadership Mythology Ancient History
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Firstly, I did enjoy this story. It is well written and the dialogue worked for me with a couple of pivot points where the narrative could turn one way or another. That said, there's an awful lot of Ender on Mars here (Ender even gets a hat-tip in a line of dialogue) with a good chunk of Paul Atreides and some obvious allusions to Katniss' story. So much so, that it really began to annoy me in the middle section of the book.

The narrator is decent and clear but having the poor underclass speaking with Oirish accents and the cruel elite in mock RP is crass and hackneyed. There's a lot of dialogue and thankfully, the narrator doesn't quite sustain the level of shrieking he delivers in the first third.

Ender Wiggin meets Paul Atreides & Katniss

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Truely an imaginative story that builds well and flows. Good narration makes al the difference. As I said, unexpectedly excellent.

Not what I expected, but excellent.

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Took me a while to get used to/into the flow of the narrator but TGR does a great job and imparts a lot of soul and character into his reading. I enjoyed the story and look forward to part 2.

Took me a while to get into it but well worth it!

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Really enjoyed it, characters, storyline and the guy reading it. Sort of predictable in places but that makes for a nice easy listen 😊

Cracking story

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This is a most excellent book. Extremely well written with an engaging storyline that is far from obvious. Whilst causing the reader to actually care about the characters. The narration is second to none. I fail to find any complaint against the story. I'm just glad that there are follow on books from this one. I want more!

A must read

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