Red Rising

It is interesting to think about this as a mashup of The Hunger Games, Lord of the Flies and the current bestseller Fourth Wing with a little Necromancer weaved in. It also may surprise some who pick this up expecting a full-on rebellion/rebels story, but it still does work as an undercover/spy/infiltrator story with an excellent pace in world-building, adding each layer at the right time with a straightforward and linear narrative. This is definitely the first entry in a long-game saga, but does offer a few surprises leading up to a well-written large-scale finale for part one.