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CIT: tornare a casa per trovare non il passato, ma il futuro ( )

Als ich angefangen habe, das Buch zu lesen, war ich sehr euphorisch, denn ich hatte schon viel über die Reihe gehört. Als ich dann aber feststellen musste, dass es bereits der 5. Teil der gesamten Reihe ist, war mir klar, warum so viele Dinge, Situationen und Charakterzüge für mich irritierend waren und ich der Handlung nicht wirklich folgen konnte.
Mir gefällt auch nicht, wenn Bücher mittendrin aufhören, weil deutsche Verlage die Bücher teilen. Das ist für mich ein Grund, nicht zum Buch zu greifen.
Der Schreibstil war flüssig und hat mich auch im Buch gut festhalten können, bis eben der Punkt kam, dass es bereits der 5 Band der Reihe ist. ( )

A lot left I'm still unpacking about this book. I simultaneously had a hard time getting into it and also was riveted every time I picked it up. Very dark and gory, and plotted kind of like if The Hunger Games was rated R and set in space. Mars is populated but humanity exists in a strict class system given color names, with Reds at the very bottom, and Golds at the tippy top. Darrow, a Red, infiltrates the Golds for revenge and competes in their school's war games.

In a lot of ways this felt very YA dystopian-coded, just bloodier. Regardless I'm interested to see where the rest of the series goes - there are a lot of thoughtful notions about class, society (and capitalism essentially), with compelling characters. ( )

The plot, setting, and characters took a while to get fully fleshed out, but the book was great after the 50% mark. The characters had much more depth and personality, and the plot really picked up from there.

I'm impressed with this book, and I'm excited to read more of the series.

I bloodydamn loved this book. The characters felt real, visceral, and yet nobody felt invulnerable; the consequences felt real, for every character, even for those the reader comes to love. The protagonist is complex, and has complex relationships with many characters; and this is so clearly an anti-totalitarian, pro-class solidarity novel that I highly recommend.

Break the chains! Four and a half stars, aspiring to five. ( )