Red Rising Trilogy
So, Red Rising. I ate book one in 4 days, and now I'm gobbling down book two. Book three is due out early next year and I've got it pre-ordered.
If you like science-fantasy-dystopias, despite the fact that this series is appropriate for older teens, it doesn't feel as if you're eating wonderbread or that anything is sanitized. Or to put it bluntly, our narrator's lack of getting laid left right and sideways is rather convincingly written as (a) it's never been that much of a drive for him to begin with, (b) he needs to care for the person he's intimate with and (c) he's not going to fuck a slave.
If you like science-fantasy-dystopias, despite the fact that this series is appropriate for older teens, it doesn't feel as if you're eating wonderbread or that anything is sanitized. Or to put it bluntly, our narrator's lack of getting laid left right and sideways is rather convincingly written as (a) it's never been that much of a drive for him to begin with, (b) he needs to care for the person he's intimate with and (c) he's not going to fuck a slave.