BOOK REVIEW: Red Rising by Pierce Brown

Title: Red Rising
Author: Pierce Brown
Publisher: Del Rey (Random House)
Publication Date: January 28th, 2014
Genre(s): Young Adult, Sciencee Fiction, Dystopia, Fantasy
Pages: 382

The war begins...
Darrow is a Helldiver, one of a thousand men and women who live in the vast caves beneath the surface of Mars. Generations of Helldivers have spent their lives toiling to mine the precious elements that will allow the planet to be terraformed. Just knowing that one day people will be able to walk the surface of the planet is enough to justify their sacrifice. The Earth is dying, and Darrow and his people are the only hope humanity has left.
Until the day Darrow learns that it is all a lie. Mars is habitable - and indeed has been inhabited for generations by a class of people calling themselves the Golds. The Golds regard Darrow and his fellows as slave labour, to be exploited and worked to death without a second thought.
With the help of a mysterious group of rebels, Darrow disguises himself as a Gold and infiltrates their command school, intent on taking down his oppressors from the inside.
But the command school is a battlefield. And Darrow isn't the only student with an agenda...

I somehow got to know this book from goodreads, maybe from recommendation section and I found it very interesting. It's about a boy named Darrow who live in caves underneath the surface of Mars. He is a Helldiver who basically a miner of Helium-3 which an element that will allow planet to be terraformed and people will be able to live in the surface of mars. The society was divided into classes, Red is the bottom of the society and Gold is the top of the society. You can recognize what color you are by your hair and eye color. Darrow was born Red with red hair and red eyes, but somehow he managed to be a Gold.

I thought this book was amazing. The world building is so great, the writing is beautiful. I guess everything you could ask for in a YA dystopian book, is here. Told in first person perspective, you'll get confused by the time you read first 50 pages but you just have to push through because it will worth it. I love how Pierce Brown described things around Darrow, the situations, so we got full vision on everything. We also got character development, so many unexpected and shocking plot twists! Oh my God, this book is really that great.

If you want The Hunger Games, Game of Thrones, Enders Game or Percy Jackson combined in one book, you will have to get this book! I gave this book 5 out of 5 stars! It was amazing, I thought you dystopian fantasy book lover should read this book soon! I am so excited for the sequel called Golden Son which already have a cover and it is gorgeous!

Happy reading! :)

-Nikita