Worth the hype?? || Should You Read the Red Rising Saga?
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just wanted to say I love this Should You Read series, it's such a great resource and you cover all the bases beyond personal opinion too, genuinely helpful
Darrow's entire story ark of the 2nd book and especially the 4th and 5th books are about how Darrow's self perceived invincibility gets him into trouble and harms those around him. The major theme of Dark age is him finally coming to terms with how not addressing his weaknesses has cause unmeasurable harm.
I loved this book and it was my first dip in this genre. Years later, I haven’t read much sci fi and haven’t been able to get much into it so I’m surprised at the fact that I enjoyed it in the first place, it’s very different than what I normally read. I might reread it again 😊
i’m having one of those weird book moments with dark age where i absolutely think it’s my favorite in the series and will be a five star but it’s so miserable and depressing that i’ve been reading it for two weeks and i’m 500 pages in and don’t actively read a lot every day. it’s strange for a book to have such a strong emotional effect on me yet i think it’s amazing?? 🦊
I am so delighted to hear that Light Bringer was a hit for you, because I knew you were kinda so so on Dark Age and that got me nervous haha. I am currently halfway through my first read of Dark Age (that was the only one I hadn't read before yet) and I am SO glad that I was warned about the different tone and project, because it allowed me to go in with the right expectations and now I am actually really appreciating it.
Also, I agree that this is the perfect series to read together with people. I've been watching all the chats you did with Liene and Alex as I made my way through this binge reread and it has enhanced my enjoyment even more, so thanks for doing those 🤩
Excellent video 🥰
I almost did not finish Red Rising when I first read it. I recently finished and enjoyed Light Bringer and am now nostalgic for that first book. Looking forward to re-reading the series one day 🐺
Light Bringer made me VERY nostalgic for the first book and I just re-read it recently 😅
Any tips for getting through the first book? I DNFed because it turned into a YA circlejerk, excuse my French.
I had people encouraging me to finish it, by promising that the quality of the story and the characters would improve in the other books. After the 50% mark in Red Rising, I was pretty much casually listening to the rest of the book on audio. But by the end, I was intrigued and excited for Golden Son, which did end up being a much better reading experience. Red Rising itself feels very unique to the series, compared to the other books.@@PhilfromAustin
@@SaberFate777 I’ll consider it. After all, I only had about a third of the book left to read!
@@PhilfromAustin Change the way Darrow sounds to you.
People that disconnect with Darrow describe him as misogynistic, arrogant, and too capable.
I had a similar experience and pretty much loved all the characters except Darrow.
Then I went back for a refresh before Golden Son, I had a road oriented job. So I audiobook'd it.
Darrow... kinda sounded like a coward with a death wish. And it really reframed the entire experience. He wasn't some Gary Stu anymore, he was a teenager who'd already experienced intense hardship, so he was better at coping with horror than the rest of them, which was his only real emotional advantage. Everything else was him pretending to know how things were going to go and resisting the urge to jump at every shadow, stressing about what he would do if he got caught or even just failed.
I’m about 60% into my re-read of Dark Age. I can’t believe how much of the details I forgot! It was like reading a new book. I was kind of dreading reading it again, because I did remember the darkness. Looking forward to Light Bringer. 🦊
🦊 I know this series is not going to be for me but I'm glad people are enjoying it c:
The darkness in dark age was needed in order for lightbringer to make sense. In order to get to the place of growth the foundation needs to be broken so it’s not out of place in the context of the series
With everyone talking about this series right now I've been intrigued to pick it up. Maybe in 2024 I'll binge it. This year I've made Stormlight Archive my "finish the series" FOMO goal. 🐺
Its good to have goals and this one is a long one so I get it!
it took me years to start this up again lol I regret not doing so.. definitely try it out! 😁
Imagine reading the entire series and thinking Darrow is just naturally good at everything, my boy just got everything handed to him and is all righteous a complete Mary Sue my goodmen.
I don't understand your comment
😊 this is definitely being used to convince my friend to read the series to then encourage me to continue
Red Rising is a lot if fun. Just read the first book and enjoy the ride!
yaaay i was waiting for this one!!!
red rising is one of those series that i constantly surprise myself with how into this series i am lol. i have so many complaints and criticsms about it, but i can't deny i still love it
normally i hate it when people tell me "just push through the first book!" but with this series it's so valid
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Omg lol im 70% into dark age and WOW talk about dark and non stop craziness!!!! Im LOVING every second of it but indeed very brutal and quite heavier than the the previous ones. Great vid, I hope more people get into, definitely should! I loved first book but I do think personally its the weakest one.. give it a shot people! :D ❤
I think the first one is just a very efficient form of what it is and so easy for me to read that I appreciate it a lot for that. Like being a compulsively consumable read for me always gives a book higher marks 😅
@@LiteratureScienceAlliance yes! completely agree. I had no personal issue with it.. just trying to think objectively I guess for others who might haha.
I couldn’t get passed the first book. I liked the first half until they started the “school.” As soon as that happened, it’s like a different author took over and turned it into an immature YA novel. I couldn’t get through it and DNFed. I know everyone says the other books are better, but I was too devastated by the YA change to give it a shot.
I didn't personally think it read like YA (the YA I have read is more mature and better lol) It read like how people who think they are Gods would be in a war college where almost everything is allowed, lord of the flies on steroids and lots of bad humor used for coping. But you are not alone, so many people hate the school scenes. I just don't consider it "being" YA part of that. Especially since I have never read a YA that I would compare to those scenes.
Thanks for this review! I lost so much trust in the author after Dark Age that I put the series down and couldn’t go back to it. I think I will give Light Bringer a try now.
You have to! It’s one of the best books I’ve read and differs from Dark Age. I liked Dark Age a lot though, even though it left me devastated 😂
I started the first book a few years back and wasn’t loving Darrow’s pov so I put it down. Sounds like it’s probably not for me if he’s what the first trilogy centers around.
I have NOT read any books in this saga yet, but I will likely pick them up once the 7th and final book is published, as I suspect I will enjoy it. I almost exclusively binge series, since I generally don't want to re-read (there are SO many books out there and SO little time!).
Excited for all of us once this last book is released!
Great video. Read first trilogy, loved it and how it ended. But im scared it will feel like a drag if i keep going. Bc of this video I'm gonna read the saga (book 4 and on). Also yea it's annoying darrow is good at everything.
Still have no idea how I will feel about this series but I will try it one of these days lol.
Your plot driven soul should be happy so long as other things don’t get in the way 😅
🦊 Finished my re-read of Dark Age today. I am shattered. Shattered! I remembered almost nothing of this book and now I know why. It was just too traumatic so I blocked it from my memory. Coping mechanism in action. (Is reader abuse legal?) This was a real struggle to read. It took me almost a month. Happy I have Light Bringer waiting in the wings. I need it to soothe my reading self who’s been savagely beaten for the last month.
I think Morningstar would be my highest rated one so far. I'm starting Light Bringer next week. I wish Brown had more of an overarching plan or outline. Book to book, there are things that just stick out to me that i wish were setup better 🦊
I think that's part of the problem with him not being an author who outlines. I found it fascinating when I learned Ken Liu was the same way but he just uses his first draft as the outline and goes back to make it make sense
I COMPLETELY AGREE!!! definitely feels like he just makes things up as he goes and whenever a new thing gets introduced it's in a way that acts like it was a thing all along, when it really wasn't lol, especially when it comes to character relationships
Hot take- if you take the outline and characters from Red Rising, it would match up exactly with The Hunger Games, but the Red Rising series gets better lol.
i think i'll try this one from the library...hopefully it will be good for me🤞🦊
I'm still a little unsure if I should start it sounds really long..
Does the writing improve? Just started Red Rising and it’s not the best writing, even for YA.
I am not someone who notices prose but Liene does think the writing improves with each book (although I guess I don't know her Light Bringer opinions yet) and she has a better eye for that. In terms of character work, world building and plot construction those all do improve.
@@LiteratureScienceAlliance thank you! I think reading it after Joe Abercrombie wasn’t the best idea. But I think I’m in the same boat as you, things aren’t working but I’m still keen to keep going.
I did not like Red Rising... Like, at all but there is a part of me that is tempted to continue the series just because I have FOMO seeing everyone read and reread the entire series for Lightbringer 😂
Well depending on what you hated in Red Rising you might have better luck reading on. I know people who gave the first book 1 or 2 stars and the sequel 5 but I do think it depends on what didn't work for you
@@LiteratureScienceAlliance My issue was the completely random way the plot was paced! Especially once we got into the last 3rd and the battle royale, I didn't have ANY emotional connection to anything that was going on, to me it felt like we were just jumping from one moment to another with absolutely no break or bridging in between. It also didn't help that I was extremely annoyed with how overpowered the main character was 😂 I thought I was about to lose my mind when I read about how he literally got plastic surgery to become the most beautiful man ever lived and how he has somehow consumed all of the greatest works of literature, I was like man wtf is going on 🤣
The way I've described RR to other people is that it feels like a mashup of Throne of Glass (for the op protagonist), daughter of the moon goddess (for the pacing, where we'd jump from one event to another) and nevernight (for general edginess)... And I didn't HATE any of those 3 books (well except ToG which I actively disliked, the other two I just thought were ok) but to me it felt like Red Rising took all of the worst qualities of those books and none of the redeeming factors
But yeah those are my two main issues: I didn't like the pacing and I didn't like Darrow (or more specifically darrows, OP-ness) but if you tell me it improves I might give the rest of the series a shot 🤗
@@kartik3719 I think the pacing improves a lot, but Darrow does not really show human faults until Iron Gold 😅
@@LiteratureScienceAlliance oof yeah then I don't think I can complete this trilogy 😂, I'm genuinely happy for the people who love this series but I don't think I can be one of them 🤧
@@kartik3719same. I just couldn’t get through the first book. The writing was too YA and immature during the Battle Royale sections. I keep hearing about the other books being great but I was so put off by the first book to continue.
i read the first two and lost interest. the first one was fun but not particularly original or well written, the next was less fun to me
I think my unpopular opinion is how much I don’t care for Golden Son 😅
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