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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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[–] 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

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the author wasted it on the other "red" guy.

In the first book to me it came across as a simple power fantasy.