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Red Rising (Red Rising #1) by Pierce Brown

Time 16 hours 10 minutes Narrator Tim Gerard Reynolds

The first of what was initially a trilogy but is steadily growing with a further book added, and another on the way, plus a series of graphic novels. Warning: this book contains violence and bad language. It is a story of revolution, set in space, but more in the vein of the Hunger Games than Star Wars, due it’s physical violence. No guns or lasers here.

Story Hundreds of years into the future, the human race is divided into castes named after colours; from golds, the ruling class that are the biggest, strongest and most ruthless, down to reds who are physically small and do the most menial jobs in society.

Darrow is a red miner in a Mars mining community, where his people live short brutal lives. Darrow is taken from his community by a terrorist group to help infiltrate the gold community. He is physically changed to look like them and sent to the Institute where the cream of the gold teens compete for honours and a high place in society. It seems however that many golds are expected to die during the process and someone is cheating.

Narrator Tim Gerard Reynolds is theatre actor and an experienced audiobook narrator. He studied at Trinity College Dublin. His voice is easy to listen to and the pacing was good. However, the most important factor in his narration of this book is the clever use of accents to highlight the plot. When TGR is narrating the story and voicing Darrow’s inner voice he reads in what I presume is his native Irish accent. However the dialogue between the golds is all read in a drama school, English accent. This means you never forget what Darrow really is. This device really lifts the story to another level.

At first, I found the audiobook a little hard to get into. I remember feeling the same way on reading it. There is a fair bit of unfamiliar lingo that I found hard to get my head round. Once I got into the meat of the story, though, I blasted through this audiobook in record time. I couldn’t leave it alone and found myself shunning tv and my reading book to progress it. If you like an epic and bloody space fantasy with only a small hint of romance, I’d highly recommend this one for you.

9/10