I would not call Red Rising young adult. At best it’s new adult or maybe a cross over. The series is quite complex and I don’t agree that it’s stylistically written as young adult. It may just not be for you and that’s fine.

I would not call Red Rising young adult. At best it’s new adult or maybe a cross over. The series is quite complex and I don’t agree that it’s stylistically written as young adult. It may just not be for you and that’s fine.

I’m pretty much over Romantasy but I did read it because of all the hype. I fully expected to not like it though and so I was at least a bit pleasantly surprised. It’s fun. That’s it, just fun. Not great literature by any stretch of the imagination and highly derivative of some truly amazing series (lookin at you Anne McCaffrey) but I was highly entertained through most of it. It’s a low bar but it did at least meet that bar.

That was one of the few things I liked in the book! I thought it was genuinely clever way to add some world building. Maybe because I’m a huge nerd.