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They call him father, liberator, warlord, Reaper. But he feels a boy as he falls toward the pale blue planet, his armor red, his army vast, his heart heavy. It is the tenth year of war and the thirty-second of his life. A decade ago, Darrow was the hero of the revolution he believed would break the chains of the Society. But the Rising has shattered everything: Instead of peace and freedom, it has brought endless war. Now he must risk everything he has fought for on one last desperate mission. Darrow still believes he can save everyone, but can he save himself? And throughout the worlds, other destinies entwine with Darrow’s to change his fate forever: A young Red girl flees tragedy in her refugee camp and achieves for herself a new life she could never have imagined. An ex-soldier broken by grief is forced to steal the most valuable thing in the galaxy—or pay with his life. And Lysander au Lune, the heir in exile to the sovereign, wanders the stars with his mentor, Cassius, haunted by the loss of the world that Darrow transformed, and dreaming of what will rise from its ashes. Red Rising was the story of the end of one universe, and Iron Gold is the story of the creation of a new one. Witness the beginning of a stunning new saga of tragedy and triumph from masterly New York Times bestselling author Pierce Brown.
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I downloaded this entire series onto my kindle without reading too much about it. I knew that Morning Star was technically the “end” of the trilogy, but I had no idea what the next set of books would focus on!
It is incredible to me that the world Brown has built is still fascinating to me after spending this long in it! My main issue with long-running sci fi series is that I think massive space wars just get boring after a few generations. But Brown’s constant twists really keep me on my toes. Like his other books, the action of the plot rapidly accelerates in the last fifth! I’m left, as I was in the first trilogy, with genuinely no idea what will happen next.
I do find myself kind of having a bit of conflict burn out almost after 4 books! Like so many of the characters in this book, I just want peace and for everyone to be happy lol. I did appreciate the inclusion of different POVs in this book. I think glimpsing the world and its conflicts free from Darrow’s lens really added a lot of depth to it and impressed upon me the enormity of the problems the characters are facing.