Re: Book recommendations urgently needed
@Lucas1853, definitely more badass than the people in the red rising series, who just tell everyone they're badass because the main character is an egotistical arsehole .
As to the red rising series, I wrote detailed reviews of the first three boks which can be found here on fantasybookreview.co.uk
roughly speaking the reasons I hated them were the fact that the main character was an extreme succeedinator aka Mary sue, succeeded at everything, had a monumental ego, constantly telling the reader how awesome he personally is, as welll as a purile sense of humour, and the tendency to be a down right scuzbag and cause the kinds of torture and mass murder usually associated with villains, accept that the main character constantly praises himself for it even while he decries others.
Combine this with blatant inconsistencies in the writing, dialogue which constantly reads like big power speeches from eighties cartoons, and general shallow characterisation and plotting (even going as far as blatantly damselling female characters just so the big hero can literally carry them off), and you have something which was all around pretty terrible! not, the worst I've ever read, but some of the lowest review scores I've ever given.
It's a shame, I really liked some aspects of the world like the colour based society, and at least the vague attempt at a future history and bizantine politics (when not rather blatantly doing a hunger games ripoff), and had there actually been a vague possibility the good guys might loose or that the main character felt anything but his own awesomeness, some of the action sequences and battles might have been fun to read.
I kept hoping the series would improve, but after the third book, which seemed to be the end of the trilogy, and featured random mutilation and a disguise plot as hackneyed it might as well have come out of the old scooby doo cartoon, and I said enough was enough!
Again, if others like the series for the action and world building, and don't mind a main character who is a boarderline psychotic arse hole with an ego the size of Olympus mons, fair enough .
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