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Morning Star by Pierce Brown

40 reviews

reddeddy's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Classism, Colonisation, Confinement, Gore, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, Violence, Xenophobia, Death of parent, War, Abandonment, Blood, Death, Genocide, Self harm, Body horror, and Cursing

Moderate: Hate crime, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Medical trauma, Torture, Alcohol, Drug use, Mass/school shootings, Medical content, Body shaming, Bullying, and Dysphoria

Minor: Ableism, Child abuse, Child death, Rape, Sexism, Sexual content, Vomit, Excrement, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Racism, Cannibalism, and Racial slurs

alyse_turns_pages's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

Wow. What an epic ending to this trilogy (yes i know there’s 2 more books later). This story had me shocked and gasping so many times. I felt so drawn to all the characters…even the ones I was supposed to not like Sir Pierce had me thinking like Darrow about a few of them. The adrenaline I felt while reading this is unreal-I’m not sure if the tummy ache I got was the book or all the gummy bears I was stress eating while reading. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Kidnapping, Murder, Suicide, War, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Classism, Violence, Blood, and Confinement

ejjay7's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Superb ending to one of my favorite series. Incredible risks and payoffs for the characters, who grapple with such real issues and practical difficulties without it getting bogged down. Whenever I had to set it down I needed it back up again

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Violence, Suicide, War, Blood, Gore, and Torture

theintrovertsbooks's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Suicide, Mass/school shootings, Gore, Death, Confinement, Classism, Torture, Self harm, War, Kidnapping, Blood, Cursing, Body horror, and Violence

Moderate: Trafficking, Racism, Alcohol, Slavery, Medical trauma, Medical content, Emotional abuse, Cannibalism, Racial slurs, Physical abuse, Death of parent, and Child death

Minor: Excrement, Drug use, Abandonment, Sexual assault, Rape, Pregnancy, Colonisation, Grief, Infidelity, Hate crime, Genocide, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, and Vomit

murrayscottferguson's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Gun violence, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Murder, Gore, Bullying, Cannibalism, Classism, Confinement, Racism, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Suicide, Torture, Toxic friendship, Violence, Vomit, Blood, Death, Emotional abuse, Slavery, War, Body horror, Forced institutionalization, Genocide, and Death of parent

cc0906's review against another edition

adventurous challenging fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Gore, Physical abuse, Colonisation, Child death, Murder, Medical trauma, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Grief, Genocide, Confinement, Torture, Vomit, Violence, Bullying, Slavery, Kidnapping, and Blood

katiefronk's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, War, Torture, Confinement, Death, Violence, Slavery, Suicide, Cursing, Physical abuse, Murder, and Blood

cayleybp's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, War, and Suicide

jpw's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

With the third book, I found the structure and style becoming tedious. The continued cycle of 'triumph, betrayal, hopelessness, clever triumph, repeat' didn't hook me. Meticulously detailed sequences leave nothing to the imagination, making the multiple battle and torture sequences exhausting. The crassness of multiple charcters is cartoonish and grating, as the same bits play out in the same way for a thind book in a row. Ultimately the vision of revolution is interesting but the journey to get there is less so

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Gore, Violence, War, Alcohol, Classism, Colonisation, and Murder

Minor: Genocide, Slavery, and Sexual violence

praaliine's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

As a reader, there’s always that one book (or more than one) that you come across once in while that completely alters your perception of literature and storytelling. Morning star was it for me, the whirlwind of strong emotions aside, Pierce Brown continues to outdo himself and master his craft. There’s a big cast of characters and yet I can tell he’s given ample attention to each one, making them so complex and so real that I laughed and mourned with them. The character development (for Darrow, his friends and his enemies) is remarkable, it was so refreshing reading about these characters breaking out of the tired worn-out mentality that drove the corrupt Society. Sadly, there will always be those characters that are just unable to think beyond their status in the hierarchy and cannot move on, and there were. It was also interesting to read about certain eerie and deranged antagonists (oh and Pierce KNOWS how to write a psychologically sinister character), how they played the long game and their malevolent plans fell into place as they willed it, and how they were met with their due penalty. 

He’s done such an excellent job of capturing our own society, its so easy to read some of these characters and fell repulsed by them claiming we’re morally better than them, but this brilliant story forces you to reckon with the fact that all humans have these innate selfish ambitions and desires, and must seek to do better. This book has an abundance of found family like I’ve never seen before, it was fast paced, it was heavy and at some stages, thrilling and exciting. Plus the battle scenes were epic—as usual.This was beautiful and the ending was satisfying, but I’m definitely not stopping here, I intend to finish this saga and I have high expectations because bar has been set by Pierce himself.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Cannibalism, Death, Genocide, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, War, Violence, and Torture

Moderate: Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicide, and Cannibalism

Minor: Suicidal thoughts