Red Rising: La Prima Trilogia

What if Dune, Game of Thrones, Divergent and Hunger Games had a baby and he was a fan of Heavy Metal? Well, that kid would be Red Rising. The incredible thing about it is that it transcends this definition, because it is the best Young Adult I have ever read. Let's clear up what it could give to passionates.
Red Rising is a Pierce Brown trilogy which mixes in a splendid way the epic space operas with the Roman Empire culture, adding lots of different inspirations in the middle. One of my main struggles with the YA category of books are the excesses in romanticism, with lack of coherence and realism and the most beautiful thing about Red Rising is how it deals with love inserting it inside the story, as a matter of Honor but also of feelings and sensations, never trivializing it. Since this marvelous idea, what perfectly works inside Red Rising is the construction of the legend of Darrow of Lykos, from the grounds of Marth to an epic trial of saving its similars. Because inside Red Rising' society the hierarchy of humans has changed completely, with the rise of the Golds as a role of prestige. Under them, lots of other people, divided by Colors, see the head of this organization as Gods in the Solar System, now completely colonized. The Reds, specialized in the risky mining of Mars, represents in a certain way the highest force among men, for the events they need to overcome, and for this reason they are maintained in a state of ignorance. As soon as one of them discovers the truth, the rules of the entire world start to fall apart.
Red Rising is a trilogy of powerful strength for the evolution given to its characters and its worldbuilding. Forcing the plot twists to make enormous changements, Pierce Brown is capable of increasing the bar at every sequel of his original story, giving it always a larger sight. The first book focuses on Mars, and on survival in terrible lands and situations, giving us the sense of cruelty of a world in which even a brother or sister can become the target for a climb through success. The second publication instead makes an expansion to the whole system, in which everything it's around households, trying to conquer power while fighting the laws of a dying world. The third iteration, instead, follows an incredible pacifist path all around the universe, struggling with the nonsense of the war and on the force given by friends and dear people in the moments needed. All these three different souls perfectly embrace the same matrix, the one of the exaggerations of modern elegance instead of the popular grounds. Because Red Rising is a story pivoted around pop culture, with all the quotes and inner references which elevates the events of Darrow onto the level of the epic actual productions. Red Rising shows the beautiful creativity of humankind, trying to convince us that we are also exceptional in giving life to new things instead of only destroying and creating disparities.


FINAL VERDICT: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐