The room bursts into a chaos of thrust fists and rippling togas. Only the Obsidians do not move. Sefi watches the reaction with a neutral expression, unreadable as ever. Mustang turns on me in a fury.

This year, I dove headfirst into Pierce Brown's science fiction world of Red Rising, which has quickly become one of my favorite book series out there. It wasn’t until I had finished most of the books ...