So basically the East India Company, but no verbal duels between Shelley and Peacock.

Pierce Brown models the upper tiers of society, the Golds, as blonde haired, golden-eyed British gentlemen from the 18 th century who imperiously rule the galaxy and have a fondness for dueling (pistols at dawn old boy?), efficiency, and zero sense of mercy or traditional morality. Rather than divide a post-apocalyptic city into factions like Divergent, this novel features a society structured on colors. Red Rising borrows quite profitably from Divergent, stuffs its pockets with Greek and Roman lore, then fills its sack with some classic sci-fi slang. Perhaps the only politician in any Republic with the power to unite humanity and evacuate it from the dying planet.īut it also might just be the perfect way to start what she has secretly always yearned for: Or has Vesper, the mighty Republic to the North finally woken from its slumber? It has plenty of old scores to settle with Innocence’s City.įor Innocence, squashing the uprising could be the perfect way to end the most legendary military career Castillia has ever witnessed and begin a new, exhilarating life as a prominent politician. In fact, the exotic city used to belong to Ausonia and they have always wanted it back.īut could they really organize such a revolt between all their dancing and drinking? Sedition is an old trick the southern Republic, Ausonia, with its towering obsidian pyramids, is typically fond of.

When a minor incident of insubordination at an exotic vacation city turns out to be the first tremors of a revolution, Castillia turns to its eleven-year old military prodigy Innocence and her loyal Guardians for help.Ĭastillia has enemies, that’s for sure. Well, I am a little biased on this particular entry but I think you would be thrilled to read Her Revolution.

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