I picked this up for $1.99 on Amazon. I think it's click bait to get me to buy the other two books. It probably worked. I started tracking them on ereaderiq. I looked for them on Scribd. But I am lucky enough that the trilogy is complete and my desire to acquire yet another two books to read when I already have twenty waiting to be read is already gnawing away at me. Buy the other two! Read them before you forget everything! It says. 
 It was pretty fantastic. 15% in I was googling to find out when the movie would come out. I was disappointed to discover it might be awhile. Somebody please cast Alexander Ludwig as Darrow. I don't care that he played Cato in The Hunger Games and might draw even more comparisons between the two books/movies/whatever. He plays Bjorne Ironsides now and has a young face and would make a fantastic golden boy. 
 The factions of this book are wonderfully gray. It's easy to forget who is friend or foe. The Sons of Ares are freedom fighters. An underground railroad of sorts. They are also terrorists. The Gold caste are vain, proud, oppressors. But some are also kind, gentle and loyal. Now- would those few be so kind and gentle to the low born Reds? Maybe not. You don't see much interaction between those Gold that could be considered kind and the lower castes. You see them culled. (Perhaps not all of them- but still most of the interactions in the book do not feature the Reds, only Golds.) 
 The storytelling is fantastic. You see Darrow fall only to rise again several times. You see him betrayed. You see him elevated and celebrated by those who love him. The twists are good. Some of them you may see coming, but some of them you won't. I don't really want to get into the story any more than that for fear of giving something away. 
 I only gave it four stars because the author is almost too talented a writer for his own good. The writing often reads like poetry. And sometimes that poetry reads like preaching, which became tiresome at times. Everything else was fantastic and if the movie gets made I will probably be one of those insane creatures stuffing myself into a crowded theatre to see it on opening day.