Morning Star by Pierce Brown

Morning Star by Pierce Brown
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Excellent finale to a brutal Sci-Fi trilogy.

Stop wasting time reading this review. Just go read the books.

Pages: 545

Golden Son by Pierce Brown

Golden Son by Pierce Brown
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

My brain explodes with awesome as I read these stories.

And terror.

Pierce Brown is like the Joss Whedon of YA Sci-Fi novels.

ME: This character is awesome!

PB:  *character dies*

ME: I love this character!

PB:  *character dies brutally*

ME:  THIS IS MY FAVORITE CHARACTER OF ALL TIME!

PB:  *massacre ensues: character dies, as well as his best friend and sister*

ME:  I hate this guy. Worst character ever. So boring and blah. Whatevs.

PB:  YOU LIE. YOU LOVE HIM. *character dies, is resurrected, and DIES AGAIN*

Also, everyone is required to be happy in solidarity when the 2nd book in a series really delivers, because there's nothing quite so heartbreaking as reading book #2 and encountering. . . meh. This is as far from meh as a book can get.

Pages: 464

Red Rising by Pierce Brown

Red Rising by Pierce Brown
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This YA Sci-Fi is one of those books that packs so much wow, that I find myself internally questioning every 5 star rating I've ever given. I'd like a 6th star for this one, and a 7th star for the audiobook verson, which is fantastic!

The premise copied from Amazon: "Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future. Like his fellow Reds, he works all day, believing that he and his people are making the surface of Mars livable for future generations. Yet he spends his life willingly, knowing that his blood and sweat will one day result in a better world for his children. But Darrow and his kind have been betrayed. Soon he discovers that humanity reached the surface generations ago. Vast cities and sprawling parks spread across the planet.Darrow - and Reds like him - are nothing more than slaves to a decadent ruling class. Inspired by a longing for justice, and driven by the memory of lost love, Darrow sacrifices everything to infiltrate the legendary Institute, a proving ground for the dominant Gold caste, where the next generation of humanity' s overlords struggle for power. He will be forced to compete for his life and the very future of civilization against the best and most brutal of Society' s ruling class. There, he will stop at nothing to bring down his enemies...even if it means he has to become one of them to do so."

Audiobook Narrator: Tim Gerard Reynolds

Pages: 416