Dorian
DNF. I have read Red Rising and I have quite enjoyed it, despite the prose not being my favorite thing. The pacing was good, the plot was interesting and I could forgive the fact that the characters looked so single minded because it was new, it was fresh, the protagonists were mostly teenagers. Now I have read 300 pages of Golden Son, patiently waiting for some development, some evolution, something that didn't read as "Red Rising but bigger scale". Man, that was disappointing. Reading this book was joyless to me. It's more of Red Rising except it feels done. Action, lot of action, but you don't get a breather or significant character development so you stop caring even if the scale is bigger and the stakes are supposed to be higher. The characters have aged, but still act as stunted teenagers. The adults act as stunted teenagers as well. And all the flaws of the prose being incredibly simple and dull that I could forgive to Red Rising, just became insufferable.
DNF. I have read Red Rising and I have quite enjoyed it, despite the prose not being my favorite thing. The pacing was good, the plot was interesting and I could forgive the fact that the characters looked so single minded because it was new, it was fresh, the protagonists were mostly teenagers. Now I have read 300 pages of Golden Son, patiently waiting for some development, some evolution, something that didn't read as "Red Rising but bigger scale". Man, that was disappointing. Reading this book was joyless to me. It's more of Red Rising except it feels done. Action, lot of action, but you don't get a breather or significant character development so you stop caring even if the scale is bigger and the stakes are supposed to be higher. The characters have aged, but still act as stunted teenagers. The adults act as stunted teenagers as well. And all the flaws of the prose being incredibly simple and dull that I could forgive to Red Rising, just became insufferable.