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A review by cody_crumley
Golden Son by Pierce Brown
5.0
“There is no peace for great men. I would have had you be a decent one. I would have given you the quiet strength to grow old with the woman you love. Now all I can give you is a chance.”
When I started the trilogy with Red Rising, I though it was a good book that was almost too similar Hunger Games, just with more mature themes and violence. The second book in the trilogy Golden Sun breaks free of those chains holding it back just like Darrow tries to break the chains of society in this book series, but unlike Darrow it succeeds tremendously.
The start of the book does start slightly awkwardly but that is because you as the reader are thrown into a time jump from the first book and it takes some time to reacquaint yourself with the various colors and positions of the universe they Pierce Brown has created
Once you get through the opening and become familiar again, then the pace of the war politics that is the focus of the novel really picks up. Darrow shows more than being a war machine, really focusing on the guilt he feels of loving someone besides his dead wife who started him on this revolutionary path, and the focus on how he deals with friends,allies, and the trust that is required to break the chains.
Brown does a great job of expanding the universe, showcasing locations, planets, and families that were only discussed in the previous book. He also spends more time showing how other colors and their level in the society (EX:Blues piloting the spacecrafts) With there being so many colors, with there also being tiers within colors it helps to be shown other colors besides Red or Gold.
While I am not going to spoil it, the end of this book (especially the last couple of chapters) puts the next book in such a interesting position and the last couple of pages did one of the best cliffhangers I have had from a book in a while.
If you liked Hunger Games, I think this does the politics, war, and government society in a more mature way that exceeded all expectations in this middle chapter
When I started the trilogy with Red Rising, I though it was a good book that was almost too similar Hunger Games, just with more mature themes and violence. The second book in the trilogy Golden Sun breaks free of those chains holding it back just like Darrow tries to break the chains of society in this book series, but unlike Darrow it succeeds tremendously.
The start of the book does start slightly awkwardly but that is because you as the reader are thrown into a time jump from the first book and it takes some time to reacquaint yourself with the various colors and positions of the universe they Pierce Brown has created
Once you get through the opening and become familiar again, then the pace of the war politics that is the focus of the novel really picks up. Darrow shows more than being a war machine, really focusing on the guilt he feels of loving someone besides his dead wife who started him on this revolutionary path, and the focus on how he deals with friends,allies, and the trust that is required to break the chains.
Brown does a great job of expanding the universe, showcasing locations, planets, and families that were only discussed in the previous book. He also spends more time showing how other colors and their level in the society (EX:Blues piloting the spacecrafts) With there being so many colors, with there also being tiers within colors it helps to be shown other colors besides Red or Gold.
While I am not going to spoil it, the end of this book (especially the last couple of chapters) puts the next book in such a interesting position and the last couple of pages did one of the best cliffhangers I have had from a book in a while.
If you liked Hunger Games, I think this does the politics, war, and government society in a more mature way that exceeded all expectations in this middle chapter