Book #99 of 2023: Light Bringer by Pierce Brown (Red Rising #6) Another thrilling installment of the sprawling Red Rising space opera, and although I still don’t think this sequel era quite matches the engaging fury that propelled the original trilogy, this is easily the finest of the later books yet (and a welcome step …
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Book #6 of 2020: Dark Age by Pierce Brown (Red Rising #5) Although I don’t much care for the endless combat scenes in this latest Red Rising sequel, the project grows on me as it goes along, and it’s definitely worth picking up for anyone still invested in the future of this sci-fi saga. I …
Book #132 of 2018: Iron Gold by Pierce Brown (Red Rising #4) A thrilling return to the Red Rising series, set ten years after the conclusion of the original trilogy. This time author Pierce Brown is juggling three new character perspectives in addition to his returning hero Darrow, the slave who rose up to topple …
Book #16 of 2018: Morning Star by Pierce Brown (Red Rising #3) When I first read this book in 2016, I wrote the following review: “A thrilling end to a spectacular trilogy. I do think this book was a minor step down from the first two Red Rising volumes, which had more cohesive plot structures …
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Book #5 of 2018: Golden Son by Pierce Brown (Red Rising #2) This is my second time reading this novel — although the first time as an audiobook — and I think my original review from 2016 mostly stands: “Given their common themes of dystopian wargames and rebellion against a corrupt government, The Hunger Games …
Book #107 of 2017: Red Rising by Pierce Brown (Red Rising #1) Just as great as when I first read it last year, so I’ll just quote from my earlier review: Red Rising at its heart is telling a story like The Count of Monte Cristo or Gattaca, where someone from a lower class has …
Book #41 of 2016: Morning Star by Pierce Brown (Red Rising #3) A thrilling end to a spectacular trilogy. I do think this book was a minor step down from the first two Red Rising volumes, which had more cohesive plot structures than this one. Morning Star sometimes felt more like a sequence of discrete …
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Book #34 of 2016: Golden Son by Pierce Brown (Red Rising #2) Given their common themes of dystopian wargames and rebellion against a corrupt government, The Hunger Games remains the go-to comparison for the Red Rising series of books. But this second novel of the series deepens the plot outside of the arena far more …
Book #32 of 2016: Red Rising by Pierce Brown (Red Rising #1) Red Rising at its heart is telling a story like The Count of Monte Cristo or Gattaca, where someone from a lower class has to infiltrate the upper class in order to take them down from within. Except in this case, doing so …
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