Discussion: My Thoughts on Iron Gold

It's been a while since I've done a discussion post, but I plan to bring these back!  I don't think it will be weekly, but whenever I have something I want to talk about, I will.  If you have an idea for a topic, please email me at tsundokublog(at)gmail(dot)com.

So, a few weeks ago, Pierce Brown, one of my favorite authors, announced what he would be writing now that the Red Rising trilogy is finished: he's working on another trilogy set in the same universe some time after the events of Morning Star.  And, yes, characters that survived the end of Morning Star will be around for Iron Gold.

I'm a little conflicted over this.  I'll be the first to admit that I love spin-off's- I always have.  Most of the time, too, I enjoy them.  And I'm not worried that Brown will harm his world or series with a spin-off.  If Morning Star was any indication, it'll enhance the world he has constructed ten-fold.  And, with the way the series ended, while everything was wrapped up, there are just enough loose threads that you can either continue reading with Iron Gold or stop after Morning Star.

My conflicting thoughts come here: I was really looking forward to seeing Pierce Brown write something new.  I didn't care what it was, but I was eager to see what he could pull out of his sleeve next.  And I'm not... disappointed, per say, but not as excited as I think I would have been for a completely new world.

Either way, I'll have this preordered as soon as I can, I'm that excited.

How do you feel about spinoffs in general?  How do you feel about this spinoff?  Let me know in the comments!

5 Star Book Review: Morning Star (Red Rising, #3)

Author: Pierce Brown

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Edition: kindle eBook

Buy Links: Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Book Depository

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Related Reviews: Red Rising, Red Rising (audiobook), Golden Son

Rating: 5 Stars

SPOILER FREE

In case it wasn't clear, this is one of my absolute favorite series.  And now, it's over.  It was surprisingly satisfying and rather overwhelming.  Which makes it hard to review.

The characters continued to grow and each reached the peak of their characterization- oftentimes in unexpected ways.  There's a particular scene between Sevro and Darrow within the first act of the book that is a prime example of this.  Characters continue to keep their morally ambiguous status for the most part, as well.  However, we get less of an insight into the villains in this one as we have in past books.

The plot was rather straightforward, though there were enough twists to keep me on the edge of my seat.  The deaths in this book, too, had me losing my mind.  There was a point where I actually had to put the book down for a day because every time I picked it up I would cry over the passing of a certain character.  But it was all in good taste and no one died just to die, which is what I worried might happen.

I wish I could talk in depth about the actual events of the book, but then you would just have me going on about how awesome this scene or that scene was and not a proper review.  If you're interested in such a thing, let me know in the comments.  I plan to reread this series at some point this year and afterwards I probably will post an in-depth spoilery discussion of it.  All you need to know about this book, though, was that it was the perfect ending to a fantastic trilogy.

5 Star Audiobook/Reread Review: Red Rising (Red Rising, #1)

Author| Pierce Brown (Facebook/Twitter)  Narrator| Tim Gerard Reynolds  Rating| 5 Stars

Edition| Audible Audiobook

Related Reviews| Red Rising (Original) | Golden Son

You may remember that I read this book much earlier this year and that I absolutely fell in love.  Well, I wanted to give audiobooks a whir, and this seemed like a natural choice.  I love it as much as I did the first time, which is no surprise, plus it's narrated by one of my favorite narrators.

Top Ten Tuesday: Top Ten Auto-Buy Authors

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This was another really fun, but really hard theme to do.  There are lots of authors I wish I could say were auto-buy authors, but I just sort of lost track of some of them and are so behind on their books and series I can't buy anymore just to own them.  So here's a list of authors that I will follow to the ends of the earth, no matter what they write.