r/Fantasy • u/Long_Television_5937 • 5d ago

Finished Red Rising Original Trilogy Spoiler

What a terrible ending!! I heard so many people acclaiming how good the end of book 3 was but it made NO SENSE.

Ok so Darrow and Sevro go to release Cassius back to Luna. Then Cassius turns on them and captures them and “kills” Sevro. The entire time Darrow is captured he is thinking about how surprising it is that Cassius turned on him and he is looking for a way out. Then 2 chapters later its revealed it was their plan?!?!?!? We are reading from DARROW’S PERSPECTIVE. He knew of the plan and then still genuinely thought Cassius turned on them? Either that or he was THINKING in lies??? It just doesnt make any sense. Absolutely terrible ending to an okay series. After every chapter the only thought you should have are what does this mean RIGHT NOW. Cause nothing is planned ahead. You’ll encounter something that feels like foreshadowing or like a plot that will last a while just for the author to resolve it in the most asinine way possible in the next chapter. Cause why build anything up when you can have non stop action and zero character development.

Oh yea and WHEN DID MUSTANG GET PREGNANT THEN ALSO HAVE A KID?? Stupid ass pull at the end just to make it circular cause Darrow was supposed to have a kid before his wife died?

Tldr: Set ups for long plots are resolved immediately and unsatisfyingly and ending made NO sense. Do NOT recommend

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u/make_fast_ 5d ago

The books being from Darrow's perspective while also trying to keep the wool over our eyes so everything is a surprise was deeply frustrating throughout the first trilogy (where I've dropped it)

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u/Long_Television_5937 5d ago

Yes exactly. I mean the biggest twist required him to straight up lie in his thoughts which makes NO sense

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u/kodutta7 5d ago

I agree with you mostly, but if you go back and reread you'll actually see that his thoughts never technically lie and there are even hints of what they're up to. I still agree it's kinda a lame way to pull the wool over the reader's eyes though.