They spread out through the stars and colonized a multitude of planets.įor Darrow, a 16-year-old member of the Red class, Mars is the only home he knows.
The story it tells takes place hundreds of years in the future. © 2014 Recorded Books, Inc.Written by Pierce Brown, Red Rising is also the name of the first novel. even if it means he has to become one of them to do so. There, he will stop at nothing to bring down his enemies. He will be forced to compete for his life and the very future of civilization against the best and most brutal of Society' s ruling class. Inspired by a longing for justice, and driven by the memory of lost love, Darrow sacrifices everything to infiltrate the legendary Institute, a proving ground for the dominant Gold caste, where the next generation of humanity' s overlords struggle for power. Darrow- and Reds like him- are nothing more than slaves to a decadent ruling class. Vast cities and sprawling parks spread across the planet. Soon he discovers that humanity reached the surface generations ago. But Darrow and his kind have been betrayed. Yet he spends his life willingly, knowing that his blood and sweat will one day result in a better world for his children. Like his fellow Reds, he works all day, believing that he and his people are making the surface of Mars livable for future generations.
" Then you must live for more." Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future. That they will own the land their father gave them." " I live for you," I say sadly. " I live for the dream that my children will be born free," she says. Ender, Katniss, and now Darrow."- Scott Sigler Pierce Brown' s relentlessly entertaining debut channels the excitement of The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and Ender' s Game by Orson Scott Card.
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