The Mockingjay is now a boy

The book is (technically) well written and the reader is among the best I've listened to so far.

However, this is just the dystopian story told in "The Hunger Games", but with a slightly different setting (Mars) and a male main character and therefore more descriptions of fights in any imaginable form.

If you're looking for an extremely well written "action adventure", this is for you. If you would prefer a story including an analysis of the underlying social structures and the resulting consequences, look somewhere else.

I don't think I'll give the second book a try.

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Sadly a bust

I can’t judge the story since I stopped listening after the second chapter. After all the reviews I read I’m sure it’s very good. But the audio quality is disgraceful. Dull, distended and not what I’m used to on Audible. The narrator is also horrid to my ears. Sorry for the folks who speak what ever accent this is, but to me it’s unbearable. Not recommend.

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Fantastic Narrator, real fun story

This is a surprisingly well written book - even though the story is a string of clichés and the main character is a massive marry sue.
The narrator is also fantastic and a great fit for the material.
You won't find something to challenge your mind here - but you certainly won't be bored.

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Inspirierend

Spannend, intelligent und gut geschrieben fesselt dieses Buch bis zum Schluss und zwingt einen, weiter zu hören. Auch der Sprecher passt hervorragend - ein Hörerlebnis, das Seinesgleichen sucht, besonders in diesem Genre.

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Very good Audiobook - Clear Recommemdation

A Little Bit of a boring Start but after 20Minutes or so the Story starts to really capture the Listener until the very end.

I am looking forward to Part 2

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Gorydamn book. And what a great narrator!

Loved every minute of this book!
Very cleverly told, poetric at times.
The narrator conjures up the perfect atmosphere.

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Dystopian world on mars - good or meh?

At first all I could think, was that this felt very familiar. It felt like any dystopian, rebellion or color sorted world. And since I am a sucker for those, I sticked around. In the end it turned out to be the hunger games meeting divergent, but in a bit of a more adult packaging and from the point of view of a male rather than a female. It wasn’t a bad book, but I am honestly not sure if I get the hype or if I will continue with the series. The first death in this book, was so obvious and a really cheap point of pushing a character into the direction for the story, that I could not even feel anything while it happened. Nothing that happened in this surprised me or was something mind blowing. It was an okay book and I’m sure many love it for what it sets up, but for me it fell a little flat.

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Read for the 3rd time and still captivating

I’ve decided to read it again in preparation for Lightbringer. The last time was three years ago, so my mind needed a refreshing for the series, especially as the later books get more complicated with more and more names to remember.

Again I flew through Red Rising and was done in three days. At times the main character can be a bit annoying, which might be even on purpose. Still the idea, concept and implementation is just so well done. You can see the world and the story is gripping. Brown can draw characters with no effort and shows the reader instead of long descriptions, which almost never happen.
The book just flows and I instantly turned to the next one.

The narrator Tim Gerard Reynolds is superb! With his slight Irish accent he fits so perfect in these scenes and gives the characters a face and each a different voice that totally fits. The atmosphere is brilliant.

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Epic!

Strong recommendation. The SciFi part is more or less in the Background. But the Story is epic!

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Great story, great reader

Workout giving anything away, this story is smart. It is a fresh take on a tired trope, and I recommended it to anyone who likes sci-fi, dystopias, or coming of age plots.

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