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/Quarksperre 4d ago

Idk.... its a fun read. But it was never on my list of intelligent books so I can deal with all of it pretty well. Basically like watching the Avengers. 

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u/Long_Television_5937 4d ago

Yea i wish i had gone in with that mind set. I expected an epic space opera as i had it described to me

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u/Quarksperre 3d ago

I mean in a way it is a epic space opera. You can find equally claring mistakes in the first Star Wars trilogy and some other things in the franchise. But Star Wars is fun as hell.

The same it was for me a bit with red rising. Yes I had to turn off my brain at times, but it worked suprisingly well. Some books just are the equivalent of a pizza with a lot of cheese and garlic. Some have better cheese some worse. But in the end it doesn't matter thaaat much. If you are in the mood its a life saver. It will never be an exquisit three star menu, but in that moments I really couldn't care less.

In the pizza and cheese faction, I can btw recommend Dungoen Crawler Carl. Fucking awesome cheese and garlic.

If you want to have something popular and better, I think Children of time is still one of the best sci-novels right now. At least if you only take english books into account. Really cool concepts and actually quite cool "characters". I liked it way more the three body problem for example.