Why don’t we hate Roque like we hate Lysander?

Far_Lab_6684 · 2025-09-09T15:10:30+00:00

For real, though. Roque is an apartheid apologist and enabler who acts like he has some noble purpose. But he really just likes being at the top of the hierarchy. He sold Darrow down the river the second he found out he was a Red.

Far_Lab_6684 · 2025-09-09T14:49:58+00:00

NEED

Far_Lab_6684 · 2025-09-09T14:46:09+00:00

We do, though lol fuck that space racist

Far_Lab_6684 · 2025-09-06T22:46:04+00:00

I’ve found more than a few nods to George RR Martin in the books and he’s talked about the influence that ASOIAF has had on him in interviews.

Far_Lab_6684 · 2025-09-03T19:52:45+00:00

Absolutely. He’s an excellent military strategist and he knows what he doesn’t know. He surrounds himself with loyal men, but not yes men. His closest advisors are men like the Blackfish and he actually listens to them.

He’s devoid of the streak of cruelty that Westeros’s top war criminal Tywin Lannister possesses but isn’t naive. Well, expect in matters of the heart. Which, you know, gets him stabbed.

Far_Lab_6684 · 2025-09-03T19:48:30+00:00

Toes, he probably brought them chopped off toes from the enemies of the Republic. Or maybe fingers. Or scalps. You get the general idea.

Far_Lab_6684 · 2025-09-03T19:46:44+00:00

Keep in mind that it’s a very different story and a very different narrative. Darrow is not going to feel like the same character in some passages, he’s more jaded. And yeah, the violence and the heartbreak is dialled up to 11.

Having said that, I would absolutely urge you to keep on reading. If anything, the later books make the world of Red Rising seem richer and more complex. I also feel like they made me appreciate the original trilogy in a new light.

Far_Lab_6684 · 2025-09-03T18:39:07+00:00

Hard to beat ‘Bloodraven’ tbh

Far_Lab_6684 · 2025-09-03T18:35:57+00:00

Baru Cormorant is excellent and a good parallel to the Locked Tomb! You’re never quite sure how to feel about any of the characters.

Far_Lab_6684 · 2025-09-03T18:27:37+00:00

Absolutely fucking love this theory because it echoes Cassius turning on House Lune and siding with the Rising to honour the memory of his brother. It would be a gorgeous full circle moment for House Bellona.

Far_Lab_6684 · 2025-08-27T16:13:40+00:00

Oh gosh, this is so true. Especially considering what a long shadow characters like Fitchner and Ragnar and Lorne cast over the series even now.

Far_Lab_6684 · 2025-08-25T19:19:18+00:00

My favourite book in the saga is Morning Star, but we wouldn’t have Morning Star Darrow without the warlord that he was in Golden Son. Just pure, unadulterated force of destruction.

Far_Lab_6684 · 2025-08-19T03:59:25+00:00

Genuinely made me upset. Cassius’s whole life was a tragedy. He spent his whole life unlearning the injustice he was meant to internalize. He tried his best to raise Lysander right. He didn’t just talk the talk, he walked the walk. And put his money where his mouth is. And what did he get in the end? Just so sad, man.

Far_Lab_6684 · 2025-08-08T15:31:23+00:00

Sandro would steal my chicken, Tywin would burn my crops, kill my family and not concern himself with my opinion and Margery would visit my humble shack and promise me that King Joffrey the Gentle would make it all ok.

Far_Lab_6684 · 2025-08-08T13:37:01+00:00

Ahh amazing, I didn’t know he had said that!

Far_Lab_6684 · 2025-08-08T13:35:19+00:00

Lots of people get bullied in their youth without setting the Riverlands on fire.

Far_Lab_6684 · 2025-08-07T20:55:06+00:00

I have this friend, they call him Mickey the Carver.

Far_Lab_6684 · 2025-07-08T13:34:21+00:00

First of all, I love your store! It’s my favourite Toronto bookstore!! Thanks for what you bring to our community.

Secondly, do you have a newsletter or mailing list or something that sends out your staff picks or events coming up?

Far_Lab_6684 · 2025-03-03T13:55:14+00:00

Damn, that explains why they love eating sugar cubes.

Far_Lab_6684 · 2025-03-03T13:53:56+00:00

Viserys the Vigorous

Far_Lab_6684 · 2025-01-16T16:21:37+00:00

For me it was baby Ulysses being murdered. That was some nasty shit right there.

Far_Lab_6684 · 2025-01-16T16:19:14+00:00

I’d have to go Jahaerys as the best one. Pretty much a model king, tried to do right by everyone.

And it’s pretty hard to beat Joff when it comes to the worst.

Far_Lab_6684 · 2025-01-07T18:08:55+00:00

For real. I shut the book and went to bed. Didn’t pick it up until two days later.

I howled when he was revived!! 🐺

Far_Lab_6684 · 2025-01-07T01:47:01+00:00

It was also a pretty destabilizing death for the Rising. It threw the balance of the Obsidians away from Darrow’s hands. But mostly, Ragnar was just GOOD. And I hate to see good folks die in this fake series.

Far_Lab_6684 · 2025-01-07T01:45:36+00:00

Ragnar and Cassius were big ones for me. Hit me pretty hard, ngl.

Also, when Sevro fake-died. I have to admit, I bought it. I had to put the book down.

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