3/05/25 - Finished Iron Gold, started Dark Age

 Happy Wednesday, feasyheads!

It's the middle of the week, just hold on a little longer! So today, I finished Iron Gold, the fourth book in 

the Red Rising series by Pierce Brown. However, some people say it's of a different series. This is because there is a ten-year gap between Morning Star and Iron Gold. So in this new series, I have two other books to read, first Dark Age then Light Bringer. There is talk of another book, Red God, to be released in summer 2026. First, here's the Goodreads description of the book:

They call him father, liberator, warlord, Reaper. But he feels a boy as he falls toward the pale blue planet, his armor red, his army vast, his heart heavy. It is the tenth year of war and the thirty-second of his life.

A decade ago, Darrow was the hero of the revolution he believed would break the chains of the Society. But the Rising has shattered everything: Instead of peace and freedom, it has brought endless war. Now he must risk everything he has fought for on one last desperate mission. Darrow still believes he can save everyone, but can he save himself?

And throughout the worlds, other destinies entwine with Darrow’s to change his fate forever:

A young Red girl flees tragedy in her refugee camp and achieves for herself a new life she could never have imagined.

An ex-soldier broken by grief is forced to steal the most valuable thing in the galaxy—or pay with his life.

And Lysander au Lune, the heir in exile to the sovereign, wanders the stars with his mentor, Cassius, haunted by the loss of the world that Darrow transformed, and dreaming of what will rise from its ashes.

So for my rating of the book: At first I wasn't really into the whole four different stories and perspectives thing. If there was one character who was currently just being boring, I wanted to skip to the characters where something good actually happened. But as the story picked up pace, I got a whole lot more into each story, and of course they all end up combining in the end. 

The story definitely started out slow, but the new POVs of other characters truly brought into perspective what was happening throughout the new Republic. If it was just Darrow, as before, obviously the story would have decreased by 75% in pages, but also in what we knew of the situation. He was away most of the time, fighting the Ash Lord.

I give it a 8.9 out of ten. I'm a big fan of Brown's writing style and the whole story and cast of characters in the Red Rising universe, and it's never just a fairytale ending in this series. I did get a lot more sucked into the book, but it was a bit boring at the beginning, like previously mentioned. Looking forward to Dark Age!

Good morning/afternoon/evening/night/3:00 AM,

Uncle Wally