Published ten years ago in 2014 by American author Pierce Brown, Red Rising is the first of the Red Rising Saga, a series of six books, with the seventh book, called Red God, expected to be released some time next year in 2025. The first book follows a young male protagonist named Darrow as he transitions from an existence as little more than a subterranean slave into an elite citizen fighting for glory within a wilderness gladiatorial arena. If that sentence is strange to you, now you know how I feel as I read the story. The book is rated 4.2 stars out of 5 on GoodReads, a review accumulated from over 41,000 reviews.

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