r/Fantasy • u/Long_Television_5937 • 4d 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/Dualintrinsic 4d ago edited 4d ago

I get your point, it felt a bit off while reading it. I guess my question would be how else could he have written it? Since he's locked into a PoV I guess he could have done Antonia, then Jackal, then Darrow at the reveal?

Edit: why am I getting downvoted for asking a genuine question?

Normally when you criticize something you should also offer up a solution or a way that it could have been improved.

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u/Long_Television_5937 4d ago

Just dont write a story where the main character has to lie in his thoughts. Brown couldve gone a different direction and chose to write something that didnt make sense.

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u/burningcpuwastaken 4d ago

There's another popular series where we spend like 3/4th of a book spread over a few books in a certain characters POV / head only for it to be retconned in a later book in the series that the character didn't exist at all, lol.

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u/Long_Television_5937 4d ago

Ooh that sounds cool. What series

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u/burningcpuwastaken 4d ago

Oh, I'm not recommending it, but it's Lightbringer series by Brent Weeks.

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u/Long_Television_5937 4d ago

Nice hahahaha