The Will of the Many

Holy cow that was outstanding. This may be my favorite book of the year. I was really worried at first because it was just soooo slow but just good enough to keep me going and has lingering mystery to keep you engaged, but the last 1/4 of the book was just so amazing that it made all the build up worth it!!

The story honestly has some similarities to Red Rising. There is a hierarchy and everyone at the bottom gets the shit end of the stick. You have Vis Telimus, telling his story in first person, was a prince of an invaded island called Suss. His whole family was murdered but he escapes and then pretends to be one with the enemy. He gets adopted by a man in the Hierarchy who puts him in the academy where he's trained and desires to rise in the ranks to avenge his family and destroy the Republic. His adopted father has his uses for him as does the Academy as does the Aquerins, which are a Guerrilla group that may be even worse then the Republic. Vis doesn't know who's in the right and must choose his own path and find out who's really to blame for how evil his world is.