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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Red Rising thrilled readers and announced the presence of a talented new author. Golden Son changed the game and took the story of Darrow to the next level. Now comes the exhilarating next chapter in the Red Rising Saga: Morning Star. ITW THRILLER AWARD FINALIST • “[Brown’s] achievement is in creating an uncomfortably familiar world of flaw, fear, and promise.”— Entertainment Weekly Darrow would have lived in peace, but his enemies brought him war. The Gold overlords demanded his obedience, hanged his wife, and enslaved his people. But Darrow is determined to fight back. Risking everything to transform himself and breach Gold society, Darrow has battled to survive the cutthroat rivalries that breed Society’s mightiest warriors, climbed the ranks, and waited patiently to unleash the revolution that will tear the hierarchy apart from within. Finally, the time has come. But devotion to honor and hunger for vengeance run deep on both sides. Darrow and his comrades-in-arms face powerful enemies without scruple or mercy. Among them are some Darrow once considered friends. To win, Darrow will need to inspire those shackled in darkness to break their chains, unmake the world their cruel masters have built, and claim a destiny too long denied—and too glorious to surrender. Praise for Morning Star “There is no one writing today who does shameless, Michael Bay–style action set pieces the way Brown does. The battle scenes are kinetic, bloody, breathless, crazy. Everything is on fire all the time.” —NPR “ Morning Star is this trilogy’s Return of the Jedi . . . . The impactful battles that make up most of Morning Star are damn near operatic. . . . It absolutely satisfies.” — Tordotcom “Excellent . . . Brown’s vivid, first-person prose puts the reader right at the forefront of impassioned speeches, broken families, and engaging battle scenes . . . as this interstellar civil war comes to a most satisfying conclusion.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review) “A page-turning epic filled with twists and turns . . . The conclusion to Brown’s saga is simply stellar.” — Booklist (starred review) Don’t miss any of Pierce Brown’s Red Rising Saga: RED RISING • GOLDEN SON • MORNING STAR • IRON GOLD • DARK AGE • LIGHT BRINGER

Review: An Amazing Conclusion! - This story was incredible. It was a nail-biting emotional roller coaster that brings the entire trilogy to an insanely dramatic, swift, brutal, and tumultuous close. If I could give this story 6 out of 5 stars, I would. While I came into the trilogy with a less than favorable opinion (I gave Red Rising only 4 stars), this series has only gotten better and better. Without question, collectively this is my all-time favorite trilogy. When last we left Darrow, his Triumph on Mars following the routing of the Sovereigns forces was sabotaged. Nero, Lorn, and Fitchner (Ares) were killed, along with many others, due to Roque's surprise betrayal (along with Adrius [ Jackal ], but we knew he was going to betray Darrow at some point). And right before the book closes, it's made clear that Darrow's secret is known, at least by those in power: he's actually a Red in disguise. Morning Star picks up right at the end of Golden Son ... and things are not pretty. One thing I have to give to Pierce Brown is that he does not shy away from killing characters and bringing harm to the protagonists, and while this is nothing but stressful for the reader, it's ultimately better than creating a sense of invulnerability that would otherwise make things drag along with no real suspense. So, without spoilers ... the opening to Morning Star does not find Darrow in a good place. And the rest of the book proceeds with the same sense of dread and doom hanging over most scenes, this sense that, at this point, 3 books in, anyone could turn out to be a spy or a turncoat, that a given plan could go disastrously, that a favorite character could die horribly. And, again without spoilers, that is sometimes the case. Morning Star is nothing short of an emotional roller coaster. In the final 10% of the book, I found myself so caught up in a sudden turn of events that I all but speed-read through the rest to find out what the conclusion would be, because I couldn't just stop reading in the middle of such drama! And without a doubt, the final 10% is intense. Before you get to this point, make sure you have 30 minutes to an hour to finish without interruption. Yet despite all this, Pierce manages to somehow find little moments here and there in the narrative to slip in some levity. Most of the time these are interactions between Darrow, Sevro and Ragnar, and occasionally a few other characters. He manages to perfectly pace this story so that it is an even and changing mix of drama, tension, suspense, levity, genuine emotional explorations, and action. He also manages to slip in a few sly and kind of funny pop-culture references without breaking stride. And of course, 3 books in, there is a lot of deep character exploration and soul-searching, not only for Darrow, but for those around him. Whereas in Red Rising, Darrow was the star, and the story was all about him doing the impossible on a quest that was ostensibly about vengeance, Morning Star steps back and looks at all of the OTHER characters around him to show that we've now reached a scale that involves more than just petty revenge. Among all this, there's a few minor gripes I have, nothing that breaks anything. Pierce continues to falter on occasion with adequately explaining a scene, or occasionally adopts a skimming pace that just hits you with bullet points rather than actual narrative. But this is few and far between, and mostly happens between major scenes to help with time dilation or to keep the overall pace from getting dragged down. And while Pierce actually gave, to date, the most description regarding what EXACTLY the Razor is (it has a toggle switch and a thumbstick or pad or something! THAT'S how they make the shapes of the weapon, you guys!), he still fails to really adequately describe some weapons or devices (I still have no idea what a pulseFist is. At times I imagined it like the weaponized thruster on the hand of the Ironman suit, but then another scene would indicate it had a barrel and a trigger, so then I thought it was wrist mounted). Additionally, a lot of characters in this book take a lot of damage and injuries, and at times this really stretches the bounds of believability. Yes, I know Golds are super-humans compared to us modern day apes, but there were some things I was just left thinking "Really? All that happens, and he's walking around like nothing?" And finally, during the epilogue, there is a final little twist thrown in that, while really poignant, seemed a bit out of left field. It's not anything like a deus ex machina, but the chances it would happen seem PRETTY STEEP. Overall, an amazing book. I'm still reeling from the final 10% of this novel. As with Red Rising and Golden Son, this book is full of twists and turns, political intrigue, suspense, action, emotion, brutality, intelligence, and humor, and by the end of it you'll be drained.
Review: A near-perfect finale 🎖️👍 - (I’m aware that Morning Star isn’t the final book in the series, but at the time I read it, it was. So, this review reflects my thoughts as I experienced them back then.) After the explosive and emotionally devastating ending of Golden Son, my expectations for Morning Star were sky high, and somehow, Pierce Brown still managed to exceed them. This book is a masterclass in payoff, delivering a story that is both thrilling and highly satisfying, filled with the same political intrigue, action, and heartbreak that made the first two books so compelling. The entire series is an emotional roller coaster, but nearly every aspect of the plot is extremely well thought-out. Brown isn't just throwing twists at you for shock value, every reveal, betrayal, turning point, sacrifice, and loss is either earned or makes sense within the wider story. The unpredictability of the story only adds to that impressiveness 🤔. The narrative shifts in directions that are completely unexpected, but at the same time feel completely right. Pierce Brown seems like he's mastered the art of the build-up. As Darrow rises from the ashes, builds his army, discovers what is precious to him, and copes with the weight of losing it, you can just feel that something is coming throughout the book. It has an intensity about it. And the final showdown is one of the best: epic in its implications but deeply personal in its execution. We’d heard for so long how dangerous Aja was, and when we finally got to see what she was capable of, it was every bit as intense and jaw-dropping as expected 💪😲. “You do not fight a river. You do not fight Aja” - Lorn au Arcos. It’s rare for a trilogy to deliver a conclusion that not only meets expectations but surpasses them. So many series stumble at the finish line, but Red Rising sticks the landing and is without a doubt my favorite series. ❤️

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| Best Sellers Rank | #1,301 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #3 in Hard Science Fiction (Books) #4 in War & Military Action Fiction (Books) #5 in Dystopian Fiction (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.7 out of 5 stars 60,299 Reviews |

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### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ An Amazing Conclusion!
*by A***Y on June 16, 2016*

This story was incredible. It was a nail-biting emotional roller coaster that brings the entire trilogy to an insanely dramatic, swift, brutal, and tumultuous close. If I could give this story 6 out of 5 stars, I would. While I came into the trilogy with a less than favorable opinion (I gave Red Rising only 4 stars), this series has only gotten better and better. Without question, collectively this is my all-time favorite trilogy. When last we left Darrow, his Triumph on Mars following the routing of the Sovereigns forces was sabotaged. Nero, Lorn, and Fitchner (Ares) were killed, along with many others, due to Roque's surprise betrayal (along with Adrius [ Jackal ], but we knew he was going to betray Darrow at some point). And right before the book closes, it's made clear that Darrow's secret is known, at least by those in power: he's actually a Red in disguise. Morning Star picks up right at the end of Golden Son ... and things are not pretty. One thing I have to give to Pierce Brown is that he does not shy away from killing characters and bringing harm to the protagonists, and while this is nothing but stressful for the reader, it's ultimately better than creating a sense of invulnerability that would otherwise make things drag along with no real suspense. So, without spoilers ... the opening to Morning Star does not find Darrow in a good place. And the rest of the book proceeds with the same sense of dread and doom hanging over most scenes, this sense that, at this point, 3 books in, anyone could turn out to be a spy or a turncoat, that a given plan could go disastrously, that a favorite character could die horribly. And, again without spoilers, that is sometimes the case. Morning Star is nothing short of an emotional roller coaster. In the final 10% of the book, I found myself so caught up in a sudden turn of events that I all but speed-read through the rest to find out what the conclusion would be, because I couldn't just stop reading in the middle of such drama! And without a doubt, the final 10% is intense. Before you get to this point, make sure you have 30 minutes to an hour to finish without interruption. Yet despite all this, Pierce manages to somehow find little moments here and there in the narrative to slip in some levity. Most of the time these are interactions between Darrow, Sevro and Ragnar, and occasionally a few other characters. He manages to perfectly pace this story so that it is an even and changing mix of drama, tension, suspense, levity, genuine emotional explorations, and action. He also manages to slip in a few sly and kind of funny pop-culture references without breaking stride. And of course, 3 books in, there is a lot of deep character exploration and soul-searching, not only for Darrow, but for those around him. Whereas in Red Rising, Darrow was the star, and the story was all about him doing the impossible on a quest that was ostensibly about vengeance, Morning Star steps back and looks at all of the OTHER characters around him to show that we've now reached a scale that involves more than just petty revenge. Among all this, there's a few minor gripes I have, nothing that breaks anything. Pierce continues to falter on occasion with adequately explaining a scene, or occasionally adopts a skimming pace that just hits you with bullet points rather than actual narrative. But this is few and far between, and mostly happens between major scenes to help with time dilation or to keep the overall pace from getting dragged down. And while Pierce actually gave, to date, the most description regarding what EXACTLY the Razor is (it has a toggle switch and a thumbstick or pad or something! THAT'S how they make the shapes of the weapon, you guys!), he still fails to really adequately describe some weapons or devices (I still have no idea what a pulseFist is. At times I imagined it like the weaponized thruster on the hand of the Ironman suit, but then another scene would indicate it had a barrel and a trigger, so then I thought it was wrist mounted). Additionally, a lot of characters in this book take a lot of damage and injuries, and at times this really stretches the bounds of believability. Yes, I know Golds are super-humans compared to us modern day apes, but there were some things I was just left thinking "Really? All that happens, and he's walking around like nothing?" And finally, during the epilogue, there is a final little twist thrown in that, while really poignant, seemed a bit out of left field. It's not anything like a deus ex machina, but the chances it would happen seem PRETTY STEEP. Overall, an amazing book. I'm still reeling from the final 10% of this novel. As with Red Rising and Golden Son, this book is full of twists and turns, political intrigue, suspense, action, emotion, brutality, intelligence, and humor, and by the end of it you'll be drained.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A near-perfect finale 🎖️👍
*by J***E on July 22, 2025*

(I’m aware that Morning Star isn’t the final book in the series, but at the time I read it, it was. So, this review reflects my thoughts as I experienced them back then.) After the explosive and emotionally devastating ending of Golden Son, my expectations for Morning Star were sky high, and somehow, Pierce Brown still managed to exceed them. This book is a masterclass in payoff, delivering a story that is both thrilling and highly satisfying, filled with the same political intrigue, action, and heartbreak that made the first two books so compelling. The entire series is an emotional roller coaster, but nearly every aspect of the plot is extremely well thought-out. Brown isn't just throwing twists at you for shock value, every reveal, betrayal, turning point, sacrifice, and loss is either earned or makes sense within the wider story. The unpredictability of the story only adds to that impressiveness 🤔. The narrative shifts in directions that are completely unexpected, but at the same time feel completely right. Pierce Brown seems like he's mastered the art of the build-up. As Darrow rises from the ashes, builds his army, discovers what is precious to him, and copes with the weight of losing it, you can just feel that something is coming throughout the book. It has an intensity about it. And the final showdown is one of the best: epic in its implications but deeply personal in its execution. We’d heard for so long how dangerous Aja was, and when we finally got to see what she was capable of, it was every bit as intense and jaw-dropping as expected 💪😲. “You do not fight a river. You do not fight Aja” - Lorn au Arcos. It’s rare for a trilogy to deliver a conclusion that not only meets expectations but surpasses them. So many series stumble at the finish line, but Red Rising sticks the landing and is without a doubt my favorite series. ❤️

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ strong close to a highly recommended series
*by B***E on May 19, 2016*

Pierce Brown’s RED RISING TRILOGY comes to a satisfying close with the just-released Morning Star, which despite a few missteps ultimately delivers on the series’ great promise, so evidently clear from the very beginning. A few spoilers will follow for books one and two, so if you haven’t read those books, this is where you’ll want to stop reading this review and go order read those first two books, because the series is well worth your time. Book two, Golden Son, ended with a major cliffhanger, with the series’ protagonist, Darrow, brought low at what seemed to be his highest point. It was a devastating close for our hero, and the beginning of Morning Star makes it clear things have only gone downhill for Darrow since, what with the months of torture (mental and physical), the reversal of the “carving” that made him a superhuman, and the whole being kept in a tiny, tiny box thing. In fact, Darrow is on the verge of committing suicide when his torturer, the Jackal, decides to unbox him for some gloating and then transport to more torture. And if you’re reading this and thinking to yourself, “Hmm, this sounds a bit like Han Solo getting frozen in carbonite at the end of Empire Strikes Back, being gloated over by Jabba, and . . . “ now’s about the time you’ll wonder about the daring rescue attempt in the villain’s stronghold. And that’s just what we get, and soon, though not without cost, Darrow is back with the Rising and plotting against the Gold’s Empire. And when I say, “plotting” I mean plotting. As with the prior two novels, but especially Golden Sun, Morning Star is intricately, deeply plotted with nested schemes, red herrings, betrayals, re-betrayals, secrets, etc. I’m not going to delve into the plot, both due to its complexity and so as to avoid spoilers, but I’ll say that we see a wider spectrum of the trilogy’s universe than in the past, visit several new settings, are treated to the same operatic space battles, Dumas-like razor duels, and wrenching losses and realizations as in the earlier books. Thus the satisfying close. The positives are many. While some might wish for maybe one or two fewer set fight/battle scenes, there’s not doubt that Brown is a master at them, whether he’s dealing with large-scale space fleet battles or one on one hand-to-hand combat. They are epic in scope, vivid in detail, operatic in spectacle and language. One could use that same word — operatic — to describe the many relationships in the text and the language, which whether in dialog or internal monologue often rises to a lyrical grandiloquence. As with the battle scenes, some might wish for the language to be a little less elevated, or at least less frequently so; at times one gets a sense the characters are reading/thinking from a refined script rather than simply talking or thinking, but for the most part I’d say it works quite well given the canvas. And given that the Gold’s society is built upon an idealization of the ancient Greeks and Romans, who weren’t always known for their humble nature. And it doesn’t hurt that the elevated language is paired with a lot of, well, less elevated language (so less elevated that there’s no way I’m quoting any of it here), especially from the mouth of Sevro, who just may be my favorite character in the series. In fact, for all that Darrow obviously remains our protagonist, and it’s his narration that drives the book, it seems to me that in Morning Star his friends steps forward a bit more than in the past (though they’ve always been major elements) and Darrow steps back a bit. Part of that is due to that long imprisonment, which Brown nicely refuses to simply gloss over as a speed bump in the Chosen One’s progression toward success. On the one hand, it forced the other players, particularly Sevro, but others as well, to take on a bigger role in the rebellion. It also slows Darrow’s progression down purely logistically, as he has to be recarved, has to get back to “game speed,” has to find his place in a rebellion that had thought him dead. This last part adds a nice bit of tension between him and the rebellion’s current leaders, including his friend Sevro. Finally, while this has always percolated beneath the surface of this story, and it really was the question of the last book, the idea of “what comes next” seems to take on a more urgent, more central role in Darrow’s thinking, at least in part due to his experience being capture and then his learning of what has gone in in his absence. The idea that there needs to be something to take the place of the Golds, that it can’t just be destruction and death, is driven home by a phrase repeated throughout the latter half of the novel: “death begets death.” That repetition is, along with perhaps a few of the aforementioned too much/too many aspects, is another of those missteps. Once would have been fine, and certainly appropriate in the context of the novel’s events, but the repetition becomes a little too ham-handed, and this isn’t the only example of such overkill. While I’m mostly a fan of Darrow’s narration, at times he’s a bit too on the nose with things; I would have preferred to have come to certain realizations, certain emotional responses on my own as a reader rather than be guided so directly by the narrative voice/author. And I do think the narration is a bit problematic at the ending, though I won’t say anything more for spoiler-avoidance. The missteps though are relatively few and relatively minor, and the ending brings us to a welcome point, one that is both somewhat surprising (the degree may vary) and also somewhat inevitable if you’ve been paying attention. As a whole, the trilogy is a page-turning mix of spectacle and space opera that takes its time with its characters and isn’t afraid to take a pause from all the pulse explosions and light saber (er, razor) duels to let the wrought emotionality of scenes, both present and past (and the way the past haunts the present and perhaps the future is handled in excellent fashion throughout) linger over the reader. Morning Star is a strong close to an excellent trilogy and one I highly recommend.

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