We’ll preface this with a major spoiler warning. I’m about to discuss character deaths from the four published Red Rising books and the Sons of Ares comics! If you’re not caught up on the series, please read no further. And if you stumbled upon this article wonder what Red Rising is, you can read a spoiler-free breakdown here.
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Red Rising Book 2
Revisiting Golden Son: The Best And Most Heartbreaking Moments
I still consider Golden Son to be the best book in the Red Rising series. Strangely, I almost feel bad saying that, as it sounds like I’m saying the series peaked with Book 2. It didn’t and that’s not what I’m saying. For me, Golden Son is to Red Rising what Prisoner of Azkaban is to the Harry Potter series. It’s the book that demonstrated the true depth of the story being told. Highly entertaining, suspenseful, thrilling and occasionally heartbreaking, Golden Son is everything I love about the Red Rising series in one book. Continue reading
Yes, You Really Should Read Red Rising
Let me guess, someone with great taste in books told you to check out the Red Rising series. It’s fine, really, it’s to be expected. It’s a great series. But hearing something is great isn’t always enough to get you to commit to a new series. I get it. Continue reading
Pierce Brown’s Red Rising: Everything You Need To Know Before You Read It
Let me guess, someone with great taste in books told you to check out the Red Rising series. It’s fine, really, it’s to be expected. It’s a great series. But hearing something is great isn’t always enough to get you to commit to a new series. I get it. Continue reading
12 Unseen Red Rising Moments And POVs I’d Love To Read
I love great characters. Maybe that doesn’t need to be said, as I’ve dedicated this entire site to a series full of them. And as satisfying as the Red Rising books are in the way the characters are developed and their stories are told, Iron Gold opened up the series to new perspectives. In the process, it’s opened up my appetite for other points of view, in some cases, specifically as it relates to moments that played out in the first three books.
A bit about Golden Son (Red Rising #2)
Golden Son really is the Empire Strikes Back of the Red Rising trilogy. It begins with our hero in peril, drops a few battles and bombshells along the way, and then ends with total devastation. Continue reading
Lorn au Arcos on men and women…
“You meet a man, you know him. You meet a woman, she knows you.”
Lorn au Arcos, Golden Son
A lovely nod to Star Wars
“Never tell me the odds, just do it.” Reaper, Golden Son
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