Having watched videos of Austin falling in love with pierce brown and red rising saga, I’m real excited to see Austin’s first introduction to red rising.
Absolutely love the review! Red Rising is one of my favorite books because it got me into reading Fantasy and other genres. I can’t recommend your podcast enough to other people!!!!
The new books are not a different cast. It’s a sequel series. Old characters reappear like crazy and their stories are continued. It’s just 3 new POVs in addition and there is a 10 year time skip. Dark age is one of my favorite books I’ve read in a long time.
I totally agree with series ranking. Golden Son is fantastic especially with the politics. News just came out the other day that there will at least 2 more books after Morning Star. Iron Gold and Dark Age which are already out. Along with Lightbringer and then Red God coming out pretty close together next year.
I read Red Rising the first book when I was in highschool, looking back with every review I'm laughing because everyone says it's NOT YA and I agree but like I was reading this in highschool and thinking "hmm wish more YA was like this dark". Just bought all 5 in a bundle for $30 got very lucky, can't wait to jump back into this series I LOVED the first book and with every booktuber that I can find they say it gets better as it goes on.
I just finished the trilogy on your recommendation Richard, and I thought they were phenomenal overall. Thank you! Now to try and tackle more of the ever growing TBR
Found you guys on TikTok, love what you’re doing and look forward to future videos. Would definitely be interested in you guys talking about some of your favourite fantasy/sci-fi series or standalones. Hell could even do a ranking list or tier list.
New viewer coming back to some of your older stuff. So hilarious seeing Austin not know what Red Rising is considering he creams himself over Pierce Brown now 😂
would love to see you guys do a review of the licanius trilogy! saw it on the shelf behind you and got excited since internet discourse on it is virtually nonexistent. keep up the great work fellas!
I hope to talk about it soon. I think the magic system is great and it has some of the best use of time travel in any story. The last book's ending was perfect.
@@Richard-yr6bt couldn’t agree more! felt much more complex in such a satisfying and concise way that, for me personally, other authors like sanderson cant really capture in only 3 books.
Great review and channel ive just subbed. The word YA will be completely forgotten and not used in the same sentence as this series once you've read Dark Age lol. Also very glad to hear you're going to read the blade itself. The entire First Law universe is in my top 3 fantasy series of all time!
This series sounds very intriguing, will have to read it after Hyperion. A recommendation I have for the both of you is the Lives of Tao trilogy by Wesley Chu. I have enjoyed it quite a bit and would love to hear your feed back.
I was shocked to see how young Pierce brown is usually these types of books are written by 40 or 50 year old authors but he was 26 when the first red rising book came out
You recommend this series to people moving from YA into more adult books - how palatable would you guess it might be for someone who doesn’t much care for YA? To be more specific, I like adult books and I even like middle grade books if they have a bit of emotional or thematic depth - I’ve been reading The Circle of Magic books and the Animorphs series with relative contentment - but something about the common tropes and writing style of YA books is just frequently at least a bit off-putting to me. 😅 But some of the rest of what you’re describing sounds intriguing! (…not least because I’m a bit curious whether the handling of the caste-system-with-some-biological-reality will piss me off, or whether it will manage to pull it off in a way I can appreciate like the Broken Earth trilogy does. 🤣) So I’m tempted to at least give it a try, hah.
Austin here - I LOVE Red Rising, but I wouldnt highly recommend it based on your thoughts here - You may not like it as much because there are definitely YA adjacent elements, especially in the first book. But if you are somewhat satisfied with Book 1, you will definitely be a bigger fan of the subsequent novels because they dive out of the YA surface as the books progress
Having watched videos of Austin falling in love with pierce brown and red rising saga, I’m real excited to see Austin’s first introduction to red rising.
That’s what I was thinking
After watching his red rising and golden son reviews, his passive, almost uninterested tone was hilarious in contrast to me
Absolutely love the review! Red Rising is one of my favorite books because it got me into reading Fantasy and other genres. I can’t recommend your podcast enough to other people!!!!
It's a sci fi not fantasy
@@treweis1141 its still also a fantasy, jfc people like you 🤓
Almost finished with Morningstar and man… SUCH AN AMAZING TRILOGY SO FAR!!!
The new books are not a different cast. It’s a sequel series. Old characters reappear like crazy and their stories are continued. It’s just 3 new POVs in addition and there is a 10 year time skip.
Dark age is one of my favorite books I’ve read in a long time.
I totally agree with series ranking. Golden Son is fantastic especially with the politics. News just came out the other day that there will at least 2 more books after Morning Star. Iron Gold and Dark Age which are already out. Along with Lightbringer and then Red God coming out pretty close together next year.
So this is the video that started Austin’s crazy love for red rising (I’m obsessed too)
I read Red Rising the first book when I was in highschool, looking back with every review I'm laughing because everyone says it's NOT YA and I agree but like I was reading this in highschool and thinking "hmm wish more YA was like this dark".
Just bought all 5 in a bundle for $30 got very lucky, can't wait to jump back into this series I LOVED the first book and with every booktuber that I can find they say it gets better as it goes on.
I just finished the trilogy on your recommendation Richard, and I thought they were phenomenal overall. Thank you! Now to try and tackle more of the ever growing TBR
read red rising per this recommendation and i absolutely loved it thank you
So happy to hear this - thank you!
Found you guys on TikTok, love what you’re doing and look forward to future videos. Would definitely be interested in you guys talking about some of your favourite fantasy/sci-fi series or standalones. Hell could even do a ranking list or tier list.
Absolutely - we’ll have to do this!
Well, I'm in.
Watching this made me want to reread the series and continue with the other books.
Fantastic series all round
Im new here and im loving every review! Please keep doing the review books.
New viewer coming back to some of your older stuff. So hilarious seeing Austin not know what Red Rising is considering he creams himself over Pierce Brown now 😂
😭😂
I can't wait to hear your review on the next series. Just finished book 5 and book six comes in July but there's a rumored book 7 to finish it all off
would love to see you guys do a review of the licanius trilogy! saw it on the shelf behind you and got excited since internet discourse on it is virtually nonexistent. keep up the great work fellas!
I hope to talk about it soon. I think the magic system is great and it has some of the best use of time travel in any story. The last book's ending was perfect.
I have to get Austin (guy on the right) to read it.
@@Richard-yr6bt couldn’t agree more! felt much more complex in such a satisfying and concise way that, for me personally, other authors like sanderson cant really capture in only 3 books.
@@crompnickton963 I think rhythm of war showed the complexity of stormlight magic but I get your point.
7:40 Wait the trilogy is completely in first person right?
Yes
Just found out the first two red rising books are included in the audible membership! I’m definitely starting it soon
Hell yea!
Great review and channel ive just subbed. The word YA will be completely forgotten and not used in the same sentence as this series once you've read Dark Age lol. Also very glad to hear you're going to read the blade itself. The entire First Law universe is in my top 3 fantasy series of all time!
Wow, a glowing recommendation. Currently reading the series, we will definitely do a video on it.
This series sounds very intriguing, will have to read it after Hyperion.
A recommendation I have for the both of you is the Lives of Tao trilogy by Wesley Chu. I have enjoyed it quite a bit and would love to hear your feed back.
This is the first I've (Austin) heard of this - will add to the list - What kinda genre is it/What's the 2 second pitch?
Woah, going from the newer videos, i thought austin found the books first
I was shocked to see how young Pierce brown is usually these types of books are written by 40 or 50 year old authors but he was 26 when the first red rising book came out
I love MS the best!
It’s fun to see Austin have no clue about the series
Iron gold and dark age are the continuation of the same story, I hope to see what you think of them soon
For me, it has an enders game and the 100 vibe
You recommend this series to people moving from YA into more adult books - how palatable would you guess it might be for someone who doesn’t much care for YA?
To be more specific, I like adult books and I even like middle grade books if they have a bit of emotional or thematic depth - I’ve been reading The Circle of Magic books and the Animorphs series with relative contentment - but something about the common tropes and writing style of YA books is just frequently at least a bit off-putting to me. 😅
But some of the rest of what you’re describing sounds intriguing! (…not least because I’m a bit curious whether the handling of the caste-system-with-some-biological-reality will piss me off, or whether it will manage to pull it off in a way I can appreciate like the Broken Earth trilogy does. 🤣) So I’m tempted to at least give it a try, hah.
Austin here - I LOVE Red Rising, but I wouldnt highly recommend it based on your thoughts here - You may not like it as much because there are definitely YA adjacent elements, especially in the first book. But if you are somewhat satisfied with Book 1, you will definitely be a bigger fan of the subsequent novels because they dive out of the YA surface as the books progress
@@2ToRamble Thanks for the extra info! :D
of course!@@krthompson7519
Best series ever for me.
Going on my third reading of the whole saga.
If you haven’t read the books at least twice, You are a pixie. ;)
I need your full spoiler review
Coming this monday ! (On book 1 at least)
I don’t agree with the dialogue critique at all. The dialogue overall is some of the best I’ve read.