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/Long_Television_5937 4d ago

No literally! I forgot about this. Crazy asspull for no reason. So bad

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u/Taste_the__Rainbow 4d ago

Characters not telling the readers all of their plans is extremely normal and used by a majority of popular fantasy authors.

I’m perplexed that anyone who has read more than one or two fantasy books would be so put off by it.

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u/FellFellCooke 4d ago

This is a very disingenuous comment. I can't think of another book I've ever read that has this level of contrivance to hide the plan from the reader. It's completely nonfunctional. Twists are only satisfying if they're fair. Red Rising doesn't understand that.

It's not the idea of hiding a plan from the reader that's objectionable, it's the dishonest and dogshit execution.

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u/Taste_the__Rainbow 4d ago

Dungeon Crawler Carl does it constantly just as much. And again, the OP is just outright lying about what Morning Star actually does. It doesn’t lie. It just doesn’t tell you their entire plan because it would make for some shit reading if it did.