Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Let me start by acknowledging that I'm probably not the target audience for this book. I feel like it aims fairly strictly for young boys in the way that Twilight aims for young girls. If you did enjoy this book and you don't fit the target audience that's fine too, but for me it was just a waste of time. "Red Rising" struck me overly lofty, sanctimonious, and obsessively violent. The main character seemed to just kind of morph into whatever he needed to be for the plot to continue without a real feeling of growth. Phrases like "I screamed like a rage god" made me cringe. Everything before all of the teenagers were thrown into their death camp felt like a preamble, with occasional interesting world building elements thrown in. There were definitely times where it felt like the book was relishing in the deaths of characters, trying a little too hard to make the reader feel loss for someone we didn't have enough time to get attached to. Overall, not the book for me.