![]() But it's so bloodydamn good! They are ruthless and do what they have to do. The boys and girls go through some horrific things. In reality, to kill them all! Darrow passes and is picked by the House Mars and he is to fight with them against other houses. When I was bitten, Uncle Narol left some in on purpose.Īfter months of healing and learning to be a Gold, Darrow is taken and given tests to see if he can get into the Golds school to become something of himself. The Elderwomen of Lykos say that when a man is bitten by a pitviper, all the poison must be drawn out of the bite, for the poison is wicked. but Darrow's body was strong even though it was weak from his living conditions. ![]() Changing the brain, changing the bone structure, muscle mass, eyes. This means tremendous pain that many do not live through. He was drugged and taken to an order of Reds that are fighting back against the system.ĭarrow is turned from a Red into a Gold. As he was to be hanged for this, something else happened. They left them there to rot and then crushed them to dust when they were skeletons. The jerks would never let them take down the loved ones that were hanged. Then loudly she screams to all those gathered, "Break the chains!"ĭarrow had to pull her legs to break her neck. she reaches into her pocket and pulls out the haemanthus I gave her. Hang the rusty bitch lest she continue to howl." This is the girl who chooses to die for a song of death. This is the girl who wove me a wedding band of her own hair. This is the girl who danced through the smoky tav with a mane of red. And what that means is it is a forbidden song and any who sing it will be hanged.īut never has Eo been more beautiful to me than in that moment. They were both to be flogged and they were but Eo decides to sing the song of death. One sad day Eo takes Darrow to a forbidden place so he can see they are living a lie. I hate the Golds so much! The evil ones at any rate. If any of the people do anything wrong they are killed. So you have to pull the feet to break the neck. I just watched and thought it a shame that he died dancing but without his dancing shoes. My sister Leanna murmured a lament beside me. Instead, Kieran bawled like a girl when Little Eo tucked a haemanthus into Father's left workboot and ran back to her own father's side. ![]() My brother Kieran was supposed to be the stoic one. Not when the Society televised the arrest. And when they came for him, I did as he asked. The first thing you should know about me is I am my father's son. Even though they barely get by with food, etc. Below Mars these people are mostly a family. His wife Eo is wonderful but she has her own agenda. He lives underground digging the earth so other people can live. So up goes the big ole banner.ĭarrow is a Helldiver on Mars. I'm going to have to add a few spoilers with excerpts and thoughts. There are a few more but those are the mains. I have my loves: Darrow, Sevro, Mustang, Pax, Roque. When I first read the book I must have been on crack, because it went from 4 stars to 5 and my favorites list! It's bloodydamn awesome! Let me just say the second time around listening to it on audio was fanfreakingtastic! The narrator nails it and there is a song in the book and a woman sings it at the end and I got freaking chills people. Gah!! Look at the new FairyLoot Editions I got! even if it means he has to become one of them to do so. There, he will stop at nothing to bring down his enemies. He will be forced to compete for his life and the very future of civilization against the best and most brutal of Society's ruling class. Inspired by a longing for justice, and driven by the memory of lost love, Darrow sacrifices everything to infiltrate the legendary Institute, a proving ground for the dominant Gold caste, where the next generation of humanity's overlords struggle for power. Darrow-and Reds like him-are nothing more than slaves to a decadent ruling class. Vast cities and sprawling parks spread across the planet. Soon he discovers that humanity already reached the surface generations ago. Yet he spends his life willingly, knowing that his blood and sweat will one day result in a better world for his children.īut Darrow and his kind have been betrayed. Like his fellow Reds, he works all day, believing that he and his people are making the surface of Mars livable for future generations. "Then you must live for more."ĭarrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future. That they will own the land their father gave them."Įo kisses my cheek. "I live for the dream that my children will be born free," she says.
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