I read this weeks ago now and just haven't had the inclination to write about it. For the first time in years my reading is really going off the boil...yet again I have read a rather disappointing book. To be honest I should give up on crap books but I plough on and then look back and think Why Did I BOTHER?!!
This book was a really different for me. Set thousands of years in the future on planet Mars. A downtrodden group of pioneers called the REDS are living under the planet, digging the red earth. Of course these people are the lowest of the low and other social classes are living a life of Riley above them on the planet. DArrow is the chosen RED who escapes his life in the mines and is turned into a GOLD, the top 1% of humanity, in order to infiltrate them and help change society. It's all pretty cliched stuff about how power corrupts and how societies are organised and is a mish mash of Lord of the Flies, the Hunger games and Game of Thrones. The writer is clever and uses lots of references to Greek and Roman mythology but for me it was just too uninteresting. Just like the Hunger Games the violence and emotional value wasn't packing any punch for me because the charaters were so flat. It's weird when you read books with so much 'action' happening around you and you feel nothing!
This book could have been so good but the writing style was not my cup of tea. I need characters I can believe in and scenes I can picture. I don't care if the characters are good or bad I just have to be able to see them all clearly and be able to live in the book. This book was just plot based. I suppose it was the equivalent of trying to read a PS4 shoot 'em up game. So much promise but ultimately as flat as a pancake
