Every week, I'll be making a pinned post inviting you to share your favorite books with the slop-hungry hogs of Hexbear yummy. Each week will be loosely structured around a particular genre, time period or other theme .

For the opening week's theme: Books you have read at least three times

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What keeps or kept you coming back to them? How did your relationship to the text change across multiple readings?

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  • BeamBrain [he/him]
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    7 hours ago

    Books you have read at least 3 times

    The Red Rising trilogy. Sci-fi setting with a colonized solar system and a genetically engineered caste system. The protagonist is a member of a low-born caste who joins a revolt against the high caste and eventually leads the rebellion against the entire system. Protagonist is super-competent but there are also times where he fucks up badly and pays dearly for it, series has some compelling worldbuilding and interesting future slang, the ground and space battles are tense, exciting, and brutal. The series is still finding its feet with the first book, and said book also handles a couple of sensitive subjects poorly, so while there's still plenty to like, I wouldn't blame anyone for skipping it. I can recommend the 2nd and 3rd wholeheartedly, though.

    There's a sequel series that isn't complete yet (still one book to go), but it's also good. It takes place after the rebellion has won, and it does a great job of dealing with the difficulties of the post-revolution. Strategic allies start working against the protagonist when their goals begin to diverge, and the necessity of continued war against the reactionaries (who have only been kicked off a few planets and still own most of the solar system) strains both the fabric of the post-revolution society and the protagonist's relationship with his family.