Advance Review of Pierce Brown's Golden Son
Release Date: January 6th, 2015
Synopsis as found on Amazon.com:
With shades of The Hunger Games, Ender’s Game, and Game of Thrones, debut author Pierce Brown’s genre-defying epic Red Rising hit the ground running and wasted no time becoming a sensation. Golden Son continues the stunning saga of Darrow, a rebel forged by tragedy, battling to lead his oppressed people to freedom.
As a Red, Darrow grew up working the mines deep beneath the surface of Mars, enduring backbreaking labor while dreaming of the better future he was building for his descendants. But the Society he faithfully served was built on lies. Darrow’s kind have been betrayed and denied by their elitist masters, the Golds—and their only path to liberation is revolution. And so Darrow sacrifices himself in the name of the greater good for which Eo, his true love and inspiration, laid down her own life. He becomes a Gold, infiltrating their privileged realm so that he can destroy it from within.
A lamb among wolves in a cruel world, Darrow finds friendship, respect, and even love—but also the wrath of powerful rivals. To wage and win the war that will change humankind’s destiny, Darrow must confront the treachery arrayed against him, overcome his all-too-human desire for retribution—and strive not for violent revolt but a hopeful rebirth. Though the road ahead is fraught with danger and deceit, Darrow must choose to follow Eo’s principles of love and justice to free his people.
He must live for more.
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This book made my pulse race, put my mind in to overdrive, and made my heart ache for everything that has happened and for what is yet to come.
It has not even been a year since I read Red Rising & any time someone has asked me a book to read, it was one of only a few that has been my go to answer. It was so incredible that I still remember the way I felt when I read it. So when I got the chance to read the sequel early, I jumped at the chance. I am a HUGE fan of this series.
There is so much I want to say, but little I can without ruining anything for the readers.
Golden Son is the continuation of Darrow's story, 2 years after the shocking conclusion of Red Rising. He has won the cup for House Mars, but really for all of the outcasts for every house he brought together, & can finally be called a Peerless Scared. So at the end, he can choose any house he wants to work for... so many doors are opening for him. When he gets an offer from House Augustus, and none other than the man that was responsible for the death of his wife, he takes it. This is the chance for revenge he has been wishing for. But the budding romance he had with Mustang, seems all but lost when his choice is made. She wished for more for him than a life in service of her father.
In the very beginning of Golden Son, we find Darrow in yet another battle. This one is for the University he has been sent to to further his education. Most of his friends are gone, sent to the far reaches of the Solar System, so the few that remain are all very loyal and the Sons of Ares have not contacted him in years. When all seems perfect and the win is guaranteed, Darrow loses the battle to House Bellona and disgraces the name of Augustus. His future has gone from set to undetermined in the blink of an eye.
He gets back to House Augustus on Mars and finds that his world is about to be shattered... his contract is to be sold, auctioned off to the highest bidder. He once again feels like the Red he is inside... nothing more than a slave.
This story is the sequel to the Dystopian Trilogy that is sure to some day be on every bookshelf across the world. If you liked Hunger Games, Divergent, Delirium, Matched, Uglies, Legend, The Giver... really any great Dystopian tale, YOU WILL LOVE THIS SERIES!!!
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