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Dark Age by Pierce Brown

29 reviews

avmanson's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Genocide, Murder, Child death, Death, Rape, Slavery, Torture, and War

cnnr876's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

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

2.5

Even as audio, I found this to be a massive slogfest. Thought the intertwining plots were much less compelling than earlier installments, the characters difficult / impossible to root for, and the overall storyline incredibly convoluted. Really missed the mark and lacked the spark of the original trilogy. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Violence, Death, Drug use, Classism, Torture, and War

sask_girl's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Slavery, Torture, Trafficking, Child death, Death, Body horror, Rape, Pedophilia, Blood, War, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, Violence, Colonisation, Confinement, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Excrement, Gore, Gun violence, and Infidelity

Moderate: Grief, Cannibalism, Pregnancy, Addiction, Kidnapping, and Sexual content

Minor: Vomit

sylvestra's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-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: Gore, Gun violence, Death, Blood, War, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Child death, Genocide, Grief, and Incest

Minor: Homophobia, Slavery, and Torture

islandbookwyrm's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful sad tense medium-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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gore, War, Injury/Injury detail, Fire/Fire injury, Death, Torture, and Murder

Moderate: Vomit, Abortion, Child death, Sexual assault, Slavery, Grief, Violence, Genocide, and Torture

Minor: Addiction, Animal death, Suicidal thoughts, and Incest

boomwormbrittany's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny tense medium-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

5.0

Dark Age is the fifth book in the Red Rising Saga by Pierce Brown. The first book, Red Rising follows a man named Darrow who is living in a society dictated by color. He is a Red, considered the lowest class and is thought to be terraforming Mars for human occupation. But when Darrow's wife is killed and his world is shattered, he finds that everything is not as it seems.
I love the Red Rising series by Pierce Brown so much. I read the first book around the time the second one came out and I fell in love with the writing and the world. This book wasn't any different. 
It had been awhile since I read the last book in this series so it took me a bit to get back into the world and the characters but when I was back in, I was hooked. This book is huge but it's so packed full of action both physically and politically. We follow characters from the original series and some new ones and I love all of them.
The world in this series just keeps expanding and I love learning more about it. We get to know more about the other color classes and their people's beliefs. I love the cast of characters we have and how they are all so different and distinct from each other. 
This book had several moments where I gasped out loud and some that even made me cry. There was two particular deaths in this that really got to me. 
Overall, I am so excited (and a little scared) to see what Pierce Brown has in store for the next books in the series. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Murder, Child death, and Violence

therensistance's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad tense medium-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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Sexism, Vomit, Classism, Death, Genocide, Gore, Slavery, Violence, War, Torture, Gun violence, Blood, Child abuse, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

Moderate: Incest, Sexual violence, Addiction, Cursing, Rape, Suicide, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Alcohol, and Drug use

marareading's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective 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. If you liked the series so far for the unpredictable alliances, the absolutely BRUTAL combat, the sheer humanity of war and compassion laid bare, then you will definitely love this one as well. 

We still follow our Howlers, the republic, the rim, the Vox, and every other group queueing for control and power. Learning more secrets, and following multiple perspectives. 

This is an insanely dark book, with the true depths of war. Every trigger possible is in this book, so check them of needed. 

Once again I found myself tearing up, freezing in shock, standing to cheer, and filled with rage. I am so attached to these characters. The absolutely brilliant writing makes me have empathy and feel depth for even the most henous of characters. I sometimes forget they aren't real...

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Drug use, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Rape, Trafficking, Violence, Vomit, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Slavery, Adult/minor relationship, Cannibalism, Child death, Confinement, Sexual content, Terminal illness, War, Blood, Body horror, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, Murder, Torture, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Addiction, Colonisation, Death, Death of parent, Mass/school shootings, Kidnapping, and Medical content

astrea13's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Child death, Cursing, Death, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Murder, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Drug abuse and Drug use

Minor: Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Pedophilia, Incest, and Homophobia