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A review by okays1331
Morning Star by Pierce Brown
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Break the chains.
I cannot move past this book. My poor family and friends. None of them has read this series, and I won't shut up about it. Some of the scenes in this book will live in my head for the rest of my life.
It's the found family. It's always the found family. It's love of family, of partners, of friends, of people propelling the story. It's the hard choices and the laughter and the grief and the redemption.
It's Sevro becoming the leader he needed to be without ever losing his sense of humor. It's Darrow repeatedly offering forgiveness and redemption to people who have wronged him. It's no good deaths, but deaths that mean something. It's Victra coming out from behind her walls. It's Ragnar choosing to be the shield instead of the sword.
Pierce Brown has shattered and rebuilt my heart in so many places and in so many ways throughout the first three books. He is a master at writing the twist. I am so upset with him, and also so thrilled to be surprised again and again.
The scenes that will live in my head rent free:
-Holiday and Trigg's banter and New York (I think??) accents busting Darrow out of captivity.
- Sefi's reunion with her brother on the ice
- Literally any time the whole gang gets on the com link before a big battle and teases each other like brother and sister and then Darrow gets all earnest and tells them all how much he loves them.
- Darrow driving a claw drill through SPACE into another spaceship
- "And what do we do with murderers?" Sevro backflips off the platform to hang beside Cassius.
- The MANY MANY pages where Brown just let me think that there was no plan, and I had lost another of my favorite characters to the war. That reveal made me scream out loud.
-Darrow's own mother choosing to hide Mustang's secret from him because if he knew, he could not do what needed to be done, sacrifice everything up to and including himself for the cause.
I cannot move past this book. My poor family and friends. None of them has read this series, and I won't shut up about it. Some of the scenes in this book will live in my head for the rest of my life.
It's the found family. It's always the found family. It's love of family, of partners, of friends, of people propelling the story. It's the hard choices and the laughter and the grief and the redemption.
It's Sevro becoming the leader he needed to be without ever losing his sense of humor. It's Darrow repeatedly offering forgiveness and redemption to people who have wronged him. It's no good deaths, but deaths that mean something. It's Victra coming out from behind her walls. It's Ragnar choosing to be the shield instead of the sword.
Pierce Brown has shattered and rebuilt my heart in so many places and in so many ways throughout the first three books. He is a master at writing the twist. I am so upset with him, and also so thrilled to be surprised again and again.
The scenes that will live in my head rent free:
-Holiday and Trigg's banter and New York (I think??) accents busting Darrow out of captivity.
- Sefi's reunion with her brother on the ice
- Literally any time the whole gang gets on the com link before a big battle and teases each other like brother and sister and then Darrow gets all earnest and tells them all how much he loves them.
- Darrow driving a claw drill through SPACE into another spaceship
- "And what do we do with murderers?" Sevro backflips off the platform to hang beside Cassius.
- The MANY MANY pages where Brown just let me think that there was no plan, and I had lost another of my favorite characters to the war. That reveal made me scream out loud.
-Darrow's own mother choosing to hide Mustang's secret from him because if he knew, he could not do what needed to be done, sacrifice everything up to and including himself for the cause.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Torture and Violence