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“I would have lived in peace. But my enemies brought me war.��

My god, what did I just read.
I'm quite honestly a little stunned.
I knew this book would be good but I didn't expect it to leave me disoriented.

Red Rising is not for the faint-hearted. It is raw and unforgiving, drenched in violence and unrelenting grief, with an unapologetic narrator haunted by loss and fueled by a rage so fierce it could set the world ablaze. It makes you question, think and more importantly want to stare at the world you were born into as if you're seeing it for the first time.
The setting feels at once painfully familiar yet transforming into something beyond what we've known. It's hard, brutal and visceral in its impact, the characters driving a wrench through your heart, each of them tugging at your heart a little harder and leaving something profound behind.
At first, I wasn’t sure where it was going—much of the first half felt almost predictable and.. ordinary, and I wondered if it could truly live up to the unbelievable hype, oh boy did it change so viciously after that.

Pierce Brown, I bow to your writing.
He brought that treacherous, dirty and beautiful world to life. I could feel the searing heat of the sun, the sting of blood, the suffocating weight of chains too tight to breathe. And I know this is only the beginning. What comes next? I’m probably not ready to find out—but for now, I can say this: the series might just end up being a masterpiece in my books. What a way to start the year!