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Content levels
ViolenceModerate
Sexual contentNone
LanguageMild
Trigger warnings
Positive tags
Hero archetypes
Protagonist archetypes
Tropes
Themes
Synopsis
When fifteen-year-old Jesse manages to smuggle onboard the Academy a mysterious red Pearl, a fragment of space debris that is a dying Earth's most important energy source, he sets forth a destructive chain of events.
Is Crimson Rising appropriate for my child?
Suitable for most readers 13 and up.
Book 2 of a YA dystopian fantasy series featuring a teen protagonist who smuggles dangerous contraband and faces the destructive consequences. Expect action sequences and moderate peril appropriate for middle school readers.
What to know going in
This book has moderate violence, no sexual content, and mild language. Content notes include violence.
Who'll love this
Teens will enjoy the high-stakes adventure of a teen hero whose risky decision triggers a chain of dangerous events in a dying Earth's academy.
Tags
DystopianScience FantasyPost-ApocalypticAdventure