But also, I don't want this story to end. I can't wait four more years for Red God.

And like me, you will laugh, you will cheer, you will gasp, you will stress eat, and you will probably cry. But I will say, if you do love the others, you will love this one. So, for that reason, I don't want to share my feelings on characters too much because it might give stuff away. Now, if you love these books, you know how twisty and turny they can be. She didn't steal the scenes in this book (that honor belongs to someone else), but she did rise in my 'favorite character' standings. But Lyria's story and her budding friendship with a particular character really surprised me and took me off guard. There were also a surprising amount of grammatical errors, but that's to be expected in an 'uncorrected' copy, so I won't hold that against it.ĭarrow and Lysander have strong showings, as you'd expect, no matter how you feel about Lysander (and one particular hashtag, iykyk). This book follows four characters, the newest of which (though not technically a new perspective to the series, just the newest compared to the others) is probably the weakest in the book (in my opinion). In the interest of not spoiling anything for anyone else, I must be brief. Angry that I must wait *however long* for Red God. This book is everything I wanted it to be. Because Eo's dream is still alive - and after the dark age will come a new age: of light, of victory, of hope.Well, I did say I was ready to be hurt again.

So begins Darrow's long voyage home, an interplanetary adventure where old friends will reunite, new alliances will be forged, and rivals will clash on the battlefield. But now they need Darrow, and Darrow needs the people he loves - Virginia, Cassius, Sevro - in order to defend the Republic. Lysander longs to destroy the Rising and restore the supremacy of Gold, and will raze the worlds to realize his ambitions. Marooned far from home after a devastating defeat on the battlefields of Mercury, Darrow longs to return to his wife and sovereign, Virginia, to defend Mars from its bloodthirsty would-be conqueror - Lysander.

But the Reaper is also Darrow, born of the red soil of Mars: a husband, a father, a friend. The Reaper is a legend, more myth than man: the savior of worlds, the leader of the Rising, the breaker of chains. Darrow returns as Pierce Brown's New York Times bestselling Red Rising series continues in the thrilling sequel to Dark Age.

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