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Morning Star - Pierce Brown

Morning Star

By Pierce Brown

  • Release Date: 2016-02-09
  • Genre: Adventure Sci-Fi
Score: 4.5
4.5
From 3,114 Ratings

Description

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Red Rising thrilled readers and announced the presence of a talented new author. Golden Son changed the game and took the story of Darrow to the next level. Now comes the exhilarating next chapter in the Red Rising Saga: Morning Star.

ITW THRILLER AWARD FINALIST • “[Brown’s] achievement is in creating an uncomfortably familiar world of flaw, fear, and promise.”—Entertainment Weekly

Darrow would have lived in peace, but his enemies brought him war. The Gold overlords demanded his obedience, hanged his wife, and enslaved his people. But Darrow is determined to fight back. Risking everything to transform himself and breach Gold society, Darrow has battled to survive the cutthroat rivalries that breed Society’s mightiest warriors, climbed the ranks, and waited patiently to unleash the revolution that will tear the hierarchy apart from within.

Finally, the time has come.

But devotion to honor and hunger for vengeance run deep on both sides. Darrow and his comrades-in-arms face powerful enemies without scruple or mercy. Among them are some Darrow once considered friends. To win, Darrow will need to inspire those shackled in darkness to break their chains, unmake the world their cruel masters have built, and claim a destiny too long denied—and too glorious to surrender.

Praise for Morning Star

“There is no one writing today who does shameless, Michael Bay–style action set pieces the way Brown does. The battle scenes are kinetic, bloody, breathless, crazy. Everything is on fire all the time.”—NPR

Morning Star is this trilogy’s Return of the Jedi. . . . The impactful battles that make up most of Morning Star are damn near operatic. . . . It absolutely satisfies.”Tordotcom

“Excellent . . . Brown’s vivid, first-person prose puts the reader right at the forefront of impassioned speeches, broken families, and engaging battle scenes . . . as this interstellar civil war comes to a most satisfying conclusion.”Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“A page-turning epic filled with twists and turns . . . The conclusion to Brown’s saga is simply stellar.”Booklist (starred review)

Don’t miss any of Pierce Brown’s Red Rising Saga:

RED RISING • GOLDEN SON • MORNING STAR • IRON GOLD • DARK AGE • LIGHT BRINGER

Reviews

  • Repetitive

    2
    By bhikbmlp
    Well defined characters Repetitive themes
  • Best Series

    5
    By lIsebbyIl
    6th time reading the first 3 books. Never gets old
  • Read it

    5
    By Dmocz
    Somehow he kept the ball rolling all the way through book three. I’ve enjoyed some novels more but not three in a row
  • Bloody dang!

    5
    By Kdub!
    Release my breath!
  • Wow… just wow.

    5
    By Ricthegoodguy
    “I would have lived in peace, but my enemies brought me war…” Ending a trilogy is never easy. However, Pierce Brown sticks the landing on this one. With all hope lost, at the end of the line, Darrow of Lykos makes one final stand against insurmountable odds to become the greatest rebel the worlds have ever known. If you’ve come this far in the series, I know it won’t take much convincing. The ending will have you at the edge of your seat, eyes puffy with tears, howling, “Hail Reaper! The red who rose!” Don’t think twice, get this book.
  • Enjoyable read

    4
    By Solitude please
    Fun book, colorful characters and world kept me engaged. I noticed some repetitive pieces in the plot which is why I rated 4 stars.
  • Outstanding

    5
    By Eric2240
    One of my favorite series of all time. Well done, and thank you, pierce brown.
  • Amazing writing and book

    5
    By Chris TAC
    There plot twist at the end was amazing.
  • Phenomenal!

    5
    By PunkyLV
    Unbelievably good! You really, really need to read them in order though. Do not start with this book. Worth the time to read it all. It won’t be nearly as good without knowing the history of the characters.
  • Boring

    2
    By *til death do us part*
    Written really well but just boring. Tired of Darrow going on and on and on about EVERY. LITTLE. THING. I understand he’s the main character but it gets annoying how his decisions and logic are the end all be all in the series. Brown spent way too much time droning on about Darrow’s inner thoughts, emotions, and other crap no one cares about. I was skipping entire pages by the middle of the book and eventually ended up just reading the last chapter and calling it quits. Definitely not as exciting as the previous books. Felt like the story could have been told in half the pages.

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