Morning Star - Pierce Brown

Morning Star

By Pierce Brown

  • Release Date: 2016-02-09
  • Genre: Adventure Sci-Fi
Score: 4.5
4.5
From 3,337 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

  • A+ writing, B- storyline

    4
    By toastnaut
    I got a little tired of this book around halfway through. Darrow still makes stupid gambles with plot-armor success. Then an uncalled for catastrophe knocks him flat. Then it all works out like the loss doesn’t mean anything. This cycle repeats over and over. It’s less rollercoaster and more being dragged over the rocks. When everything is finally going right, the ending is like falling off a wall. All the king’s horses and men couldn’t put the story together again, but Darrow triumphs artlessly. Then it all goes flat because poor, emotionally charred Darrow can’t have his cake and eat it too. However, this book (and the included preview of the fourth, Iron Gold) begs an interesting question: what do you do once you’ve destroyed a society? Even as he sacrifices everything for the cause, Darrow begins to doubt whether his course was wise. Gold was the chain that fettered the masses. It has been broken. Yes, the proletariat has his liberty now, but the iron sword of order that kept the planetary empire alive has been killed. Gold was the chain that anchored the worlds. Is it good to set all adrift in the name of independence? Were the Golds right when they said fighting the system would only cause harm to all Colors?
  • It’s a Trap!

    5
    By Forsworn45
    Traps beget traps beget traps.
  • Finally

    5
    By cclay1991
    Unlike in Red Rising and Golden Son, Pierce Brown finally strikes a perfect balance between his patented breakneck plot pace and softer beats that leave room for meaningful character development. A lot of people say Golden Son is their favorite, but in my opinion this is the best of the first trilogy by a significant margin. To put it simply, he stuck the landing.
  • 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.

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