I found the Red Rising books to be stilted, narcissistic and implausibly Manichean, FWIW. I made it through the first one, the second one was just too plagued b

I found the Red Rising books to be stilted, narcissistic and implausibly Manichean, FWIW. I made it through the first one, the second one was just too plagued by characters making implausible choices and the protagonist scoring implausible successes.