Red Rising

Pierce Brown
Book 1 of the Red Rising Trilogy

Set on the planet Mars at a time in our future where the moon, the rocky planets and several moons of the gas giants have been colonized. Society is organized in a color caste system, with Red being the miners, Pink the servants, Gold the elite rulers, etc. Darrow is a Red and gets drawn into a resistance movement that aims to change the system. He does not go willingly, but is pushed in by his wife Eo. The result is astounding. This is part Hunger Games and part Divergence. Yet is is bigger than either, maybe based on the solar system sized scope of the world. In many ways it takes on the larger questions of world building that are explored in the Red Mars Trilogy and even, to a certain extent, Asimov's Foundation Series. An excellent first book in what I hope is an excellent series.

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