Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

This book is awful. AWFUL. It rips off at least two other books (Red Rising and the Hunger Games) and an ungodly number of tropes. If you liked The Hunger Games, you will probably like this book... or maybe hate it because while I didn’t think The Hunger Games should sit next to The Immortal Bard on my bookshelf, it was decent. (I speak only of the book, not the series.). The Red Queen is a butchery of it. I don’t like not finishing a book. It feels...wrong, but I could have stopped about 1/3 of the way through. I thought I had it all figured out, but sometimes an author will surprise you at the end with “I deliberately misled you! Don’t you feel gullible?” That was not the case here, and the junior high-esque sentence structure probably should have tipped me off to the lack of highly cerebral twists at the end. Yep, I feel gullible. Tl;dr: I read this entire book. I want my money and my five hours back. There is no sex in this book, but don’t worry. You’ll still feel screwed afterwards.