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What is your personal opinion on Red Rising? (literature.cafe)
submitted 1 month ago by Karl@literature.cafe to c/books@lemmy.world
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Do you think it's overrated or perfectly rated?

I've heard it said once that it's prose is awful. Is it poorly written? Atleast, does it have a good story?

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[โ€“] Yaky@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I saw a little change from the beginning of the game/competition (or whatever they called it in the book) forward.

Oh, I clearly remember he gets worse. Starts out with noble intents to be the least like the upper class (gold?) and not harm anyone, by the end of the book, MC is happily slaying security guards and "lesser" personnel.

[โ€“] invictvs@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

The most "remorse" I remember him feeling was for killing Cassius' brother (whatever his name is), but then it felt more like he was just afraid of Cassius than feeling sorry. I wouldn't really have an issue with him murdering people left and right if it was played as the "you become the monsters you battle" trope, I don't know, it may be just that in the other books, I haven't read them. But I doubt it since

Tap for spoilerthe author wasted it on the other "red" guy.
In the first book to me it came across as a simple power fantasy.