Why You Should Read: Red Rising by Pierce Brown (Spoiler-Free)

if you don't read this series your a pixie

I've grabbed the first book and I'm really struggling. It's choppy, don't really care yet for the characters. Please tell me it gets better. I don't want to read a whole book about someone at an academy with snobs. Any number of other books can do that. Ugh.

I was driving, listening to the audiobook. I had to pull over for the ending of Book II.

Love Red Rising I only book I push too others because it means so much too me and sometimes I will pitch it and go back and listen to the audio book which I am so happy I got. Because the narrator is amazing

Brown not putting his politics or an agenda of some kind into his writing is absolutely the right way to go.

How would you compare Red Rising to the silo trilogy?

The sci fi First Law/ASOIAF? I'm sold

Is this Mark Lawerence dark? Because like you I didn't enjoy it because it felt like nhillism

Just don't like Stephen King. At all. Have tried 20 or so of his books and have only finished 2. His son is much better writer Imo. But as for Red Rising, it sounds very intriguing. Getting it now.

I've been binging your channel for a week now and I like you more and more every video.

You should start read books Aloud :D

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Hunger games is science fiction. I think a better way to say that would be the hunger games based on the theories of the movie Gattaca. With all of the genetic engineering.

Book number one is very good. The issue is it is an opening to a much greater story.

I’m disappointed that you didn’t like the first book. You just entered into it with too much expectancy. Just let it flow man. You should should think about the fact that the premise is excellent. I was hooked on page one.

This video got me to try out red rising. I read the first book in a week(very fast for me). Thought it was incredible. Thanks for the recommendation!

Am I weird for coming back again and again for that red rising quote montage?

Lol watching this in September 2022, where you say book 6 will be out a year ago 🤣
At least we have a release date now, May 2023. Can't wait, such a great series!

Hey Mike when are you going to write a book?

While researching this series I saw some info about it including (mentioned) rape and sexual assault, at least in the first book. I'm OK with violence, but can you give me an idea of how descriptive the sexual violence is? I try to avoid certain things in media (for reference I tried watching a pirated version of game of thrones where they'd edited out all the sexual themes lmao). Normal sex scenes and mentioning events is fine, just don't want to closely read too awful scenarios (though I'm assuming it's less probable to 'witness' with first person). The series sounds awesome otherwise!
Thanks!!

I loved book#1 starting from the first page. The hunger games portion was somewhat less good. It's one of the 3 or so series that I read enjoying it all the way through.

It’s so hard to deny the spectacle of RR. It’s intoxicating storytelling. It’s not McCarthy or Steinbeck, and it’s not Tolkien or Herbert, either. But it’s wonderfully paced, and hard to put down.

I think the best description is A Song of Ice and Fire crossed with a little WH40k.

Started the first book on audiobook this week after seeing this review about half way and it’s brilliant cant stop listening to it
Glad I seen this video 👍🏻

Just finished this whole series to this point. I’m so made at the state of things at the end of dark age. 😢

Mad in a good way but also mad at so many characters

annnnnnd.......mike has convinced me to pick up red rising. this man could sell me anything.
😂😂😂

The idea of pierce and Joe collabing to complete ice and fire when the time eventually comes is a dream.

This sounds awesome!! Thanks Mike!

We're on the exact same page on this.
Haven't got dark age out of my head yet years later...

I started the series last year because of your videos, today I finished morning star and it was incredible, I liked the first one, loved the second, the third was not as good as it he second for me but I really enjoy the trilogy as a whole. Can't wait to start the 4th

Thanks Mike. I’ve just started the series today while I wait for The Lonesome Crown to become available on kindle in Australia. A palette cleanser if you will. I feel it might become quite the distraction

Just finished Morning Star, and this is my new favorite series of all time. Until this, my favorite book was #2 of the Assassin’s Apprentice series, and Golden Son just BARELY knocked it off the pedestal for me. The way this series gets better and better, I just want to read it all over again. I wish I could read it again for the first time.

Picked up the first five books a couple of weeks ago and I'm loving the bloodydamn things, currently on Iron Gold. Brown has this incredible ability to twist and turn without the narrative becoming confusing. I've never seen a writer create action scenes the way he does, you can really visualise everything going on. Fantastic stuff, great writer.

Hail Libertas!

I’ve started reading ”Red Rising” today and I’m hooked. I hope I’ll like it as I’m coming out of six-month reading slump 🫤

That’s for the video Mike! I’ll definitely check it out

Aw shit here we go another series you got me into

I fell into this series after many years of falling off of reading in general due to a coworker very energetically speaking about how great it was.

I’m now halfway through Light Bringer and the series is hands down my favorite series of all time. Absolutely incredible storytelling, twists, turns, and gut wrenching moments! Always and forever recommend this series to anyone with a love for sci-fi!!

Just finished Light Bringer the sixth book, and well it took Brown a little longer than July 21 😂 but man, the wait was worth it. I reread 1-5 anth then Light Bringer. Though there will be a seventh book 😮
I am excited to get even one more book to devour but the wait,..... 😢

I just started reading Red Rising. Honestly just started reading books for fun back in August after reading The Hunger Games. I've spent the last 15 years reading self help motivational sells books. I can not believe how good this book is! I hear many reviewers saying Red Rising wasn't all that good. I am blown away with the setup and the character development as well as the storyline. Glad I found the recommendation for this series.

Honestly Red Rising is one of my favorite series I’ve ever read and I haven’t even finished it yetz the pacing, characters, world and action are all just to good and Brown writes in a way that is very accessible to a general audience. It’s just wonderful and I love it so much, I can’t believe how emotionally invested I am in this series

To me this is one of the best if not the best series out there. It's just head and sholders above the rest completely peerless in its scale and awesomeness. Every page is dripping with absolute fury and fire. Tons of endlessly quotable lines. Tons of laugh out loud moments and others that are soul crushing.

I cannot understate how good this series is. All of this I've said isn't enough.

I have been on the fence about this series for a LONG time. You have me closed to convinced. If I do not care for Star Wars/Star Trek whatsoever, can I enjoy this? The comparison to those series is what has kept me away.

how much compare it to sun eater ?

It is SO good

I'm reading it now. I still find the first person and internal dialogue structure very jarring.

Im a huge Abercrombie fan. I’m on book two and loving it. Best series I’ve read in years. Awsome. Already have book 3 ready to go when I finish 2. I can see this being made into a film series.

Ended up buying this (and The Final Empire), based on your videos. Thank you so much.

Gave Mistborn 81.65/100
Red Rising 87/100

Atlas in book 5?

Lo' Howlers! I'm so excited to talk to you about one of my favorite series still going on today. I hope you'll consider giving it a go. Hail Libertas!