<b>Pierce Brown’s relentlessly entertaining debut channels the excitement of <i>The Hunger Games</i> by Suzanne Collins and <i>Ender’s Game </i>by Orson Scott Card.</b><br><br><i>“I live for the dream that my children will be born free,” she says. “That they will be what they like. That they will own the land their father gave them.”<br> <br> “I live for you,” I say sadly.<br> <br> Eo kisses my cheek. “Then you must live for more.”</i><br> <br> Darrow is a miner and a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future. Like his fellow Reds, he digs all day, believing that he and his people are making the surface of the planet livable for future generations. Darrow has never seen the sky.<br> <br> Yet he spends his life willingly, knowing that his blood and sweat will one day result in a better future for his children.<br> <br> But Darrow and his kind have been betrayed. Soon he discovers that humanity already reached the surface generations ago. Vast cities and sprawling parks spread across the planet. Darrow and Reds like him are nothing more than slaves to a decadent ruling class.<br> <br> Inspired by a longing for justice, and driven by the memory of lost love, Darrow joins a resistance group in order to infiltrate the ruling class and destroy society from within. He will stop at nothing to bring down his enemies . . . even if it means he has to become one of them to do so.<br><br><b>Advance praise for <i>Red Rising</i></b><br> <b><i> </i></b><br> “I don’t know what Pierce Brown did before he started writing books, but whatever it was, he was wasting his time. Fast-paced, gripping, well-written—the sort of book you cannot put down. I am already on the lookout for the next one.”<b>—Terry Brooks, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>The Sword of Shannara</i></b><br> <b><i> </i></b><br> “Ender, Katniss, and now Darrow: Pierce Brown’s empire-crushing debut is a sprawling vision of humanity’s diaspora to the stars.”<b>—Scott Sigler, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>Nocturnal</i></b><br> <b><i> </i></b><br> “Brown’s debut novel . . . is reminiscent of both Suzanne Collins’s <i>The Hunger Games</i> and William Goldman’s <i>The Lord of the Flies</i> but has a dark and twisted power of its own that will captivate readers and leave them wanting more.”<b>—<i>Library Journal </i>(starred review)</b><br> <b> </b><br> “A Hollywood-ready story with plenty of action and thrills.”<b>—<i>Publishers Weekly</i></b>