Red Rising is a book full of violence, blood, cruelty and everything that involve the red color and guts. And when Darrow - a lowly Red - choose to overtake the Golden class and start a revolution, he infiltrates inside the Gold class... but rich and wealthy doesn't mean that everything is beatiful and pretty. 
 In a bad way - spoiler - or good way - just reading the book - nearly everyone know how Darrow makes his choices, so I won't spend a more time on that topic. But this act doens't show itself just at the start, but it required a good number of pages before showing up. 
 Let's remember a fact. Darrow is a Red. He isn't really interested in something better for him and people like him, until the tragedy happened. But then, he choose to act, taking inside his mind and heart morals and ideas that aren't truly his. 
 But the revolution he will brought, is definitely not one that is simple: let the poor population rise againts the bad powerful ones. - but it's more like: destroy them inside. 
 If you don't like violence too much, Red Rising is the right book for you. Maybe I'm becoming old, but at the start I wasn't okay with all the blood. I was like: no, Darrow. Try another way. Something better. Save the fucking people, don't do that. 
 But I know that it was nearly impossibile. So the violence thing started to do not give any bad feel really soon, but the start was a bit rocky. 
 Anyway, I had and I will surerly have great problems with Darrow and some concepts inside the book. 
 This story could have been completely different, and there aren't really good motives why Red Rising is exactly the Red Rising that Pierce Brown wrote. 
 On the other side, it was also quite realistic, since things also happen to people in "the big random way". 
 Then lets talk about Darrow. Why Darrow should be the protagonist? There is a real and logic motive why Darrow is the main character? Because he's roughly smart, athletic and cunning ? 
 Darrow doesn't find himslef wrapped in some kind of predestination, destiny or propechy. It was all like: he can beacuse he's Darrow. 
 The fact that during the whole book, not even one time, it was mentioned that Darrow's situation was just a case. 
 In the end, my opinion is that the book could have been more interesting if the protagonist was Eo. 
 And she could have been without a problem. Plus, seeing how a dreamer was going to fight against all the bad things that can be born from a revolution. 
 Also, Darrow is a really ipocrite and conditionable character. During the whole book it will be really easy to see him be angry at the sight of some kind of atrocity, like rape, and then he will be not convict it in a good way but in a really contorted one. Actually, rape isn't even an issue in this book, but in the end was treat like a collaterale damage. 
 Durin his days with the young Golds, Darrow starts to forget is origini. At one moment he's all like "I will save the Red" and the moment later he is "omg, all the other classes that aren't Gold are so flimsy and disusting". More than one time, Darrow will treat in a bad way the people that in the end he should save from the Gold' tyrrany . 
 And... Eo, who is Eo? Yes, sometimes he remebers her but some of his toughts when things start to get hot with other girl, are just... Oh, please. 
 Also, he consider the youn Golds like his friend. This can't be. It absurd. When he will reveal himself or start the revolution, did he really thinks that they will help me? The young Golds have to die because the Red must live, and unsless things turns diferrent, there is no other way! 
 Unsless Darrow change and grow up during the second book, there's no way that the revolution will start for real. Only during the last pages, and I mean the very last, he start to think again and his brain returned to life. 
 Talking about the book itslef, even with its flaws, I really liked it. It was complex, it hooked me up from the first pages and I coulnd't put it down. I alwasy wanted to know how things were going to turn out. On the other side, Brown should really view again the moral massage that he wants to veiculate... since, in my opinion, he isn't doing a really good job. And on this, I'm talking about the moral side, not the political and strategical ones that were actually really good. 
 So, in the end, since I'm a terrible optimisti, I hope that in a way or another Darrow will be able to save the Reds and change the young Golds - Sevro and Mustang seems on the good way. I really don't know what to expect from the sequel, which seems to be terrifying... living in his house. The ones who read the book will undertsand me.