The release date for the English version of 'Red Rising' by
Pierce Brown is Jan 2014. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
"I live for the dream that my children will be born free," she continues. that they'll be loyal to their interests. that the land their father bequeathed them would be theirs."
"I live for you," I murmur bitterly.
Eo gives me a cheek kiss. "Then you must live for more."
Darrow belongs to the lowest caste in the future color-coded society; he is a Red. Like his fellow Reds, he works nonstop because he thinks that he and his people are preparing Mars' surface for habitability in the future.
Nevertheless, he lives voluntarily, certain that his blood and tears will eventually provide a better world for his offspring.
But Darrow has been deceived, as have his people. He quickly learns that mankind has been on Earth for many centuries. Enormous cities and vast parks swarm the globe. Darrow and other Reds who like him are only tools of a decaying governing class.
Darrow gives everything up to enter the fabled Institute, a testing ground for the ruling Gold caste where the next generation of human rulers competes for dominance, motivated by a desire for justice and the memory of a love lost. He will have to fight the finest and most vicious members of Society's ruling elite for both his life and the very future of civilization. There, he'll do whatever it takes to defeat his adversaries—even if it means turning into one of them first.