I listened to all 6 of the Red Rising books, wrote by Pierce Brown. The main narrator was Tim Gerard Reynolds. IMO, hands down the best narrator. That’s all I can say about that.

My wife said I should try RR because she’d heard it was popular. So I gave it a try and the first few lines mentioned something about class warfare, essentially. I stopped because it sounded like it was gonna be some commie BS about rich vs poor , blah blah blah. I finally gave it a proper try tho and decided it’s not really political class warfare. It’s vastly different and more complex. This is a sci-fi series that takes place on Mars and the moon and sometimes Earth. There is a lot of fighting and violence and not much for romance, which i prefer. There also is a neat weapon used and revered much like a lightsaber, but better tbh. Lots of action and cliffhangers.

The first 3 books were clearly written to be the only 3 in the series. The last 3 take place 10 years or so later. The original 3 books made Darrow, the main protagonist, out to be a hero and an honorable but flawed person. Book 4 was written in a way that I started to hate Darrow. But by the 6th book, Darrow returns to his roots, in a way, and is again the hero we all love to read about.

I wrote this sort of vaguely because, you should just try to read them or listen. I’m hoping to read them in the next year, physical copies that is, before the 7th and final book in the series is released.

Hope this was interesting enough for anyone reading.

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