Incredible

I can’t put into words how amazing this book is. Took everything good about the first and times it by 100. This book is a chefs kiss

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Fantastic book. Brilliantly read.

I didn’t think I’d be satisfied with a new series coming off the back of Gentleman Bastards and First Law but boy was I surprised.

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So much better than the last one!

Right, I feel very strongly about these books. Full disclosure, I have now read all three in the trilogy and am having a small break before I start the next trilogy for Darrow.

This has been the best series I have read in a while.

This book is so much better than the last one, and the last one was absolutely awesome already. Red Rising was an amazing entry into this universe of different types of humans, and different planets, with strange weapons and armour that you just love to know about. But Golden Son is another thing entirely.

Strengths and weaknesses.

Well, strengths. Thats everything. The characters are great, and we see old loyalties tested and brought back in. The plot, oh my god, the plot of this was perfection. Every twist and turn felt real, every bit of it made sense, all of it earned. It was pacy, it was gritty, it was dark, so dark. Much darker than the last in many ways. I couldn't put it down, I couldn't stop reading. I loved every second of this.

Darrow has grown into an incredible character, and the world expands massively. So much happens in this book, which is a refreshing change from quite a few series that I've read recently that just felt like not a lot occurred. Again Pierce Brown hits a home run. Issues with prose and pacing are gone from this one. Prose are very stylistic, but I love the style and at the end of the day, I LOVE DARROW, and I love all of the people he has around him.

Another incredibly high recommendation from me for these ones. I can not sing the praises of this book and series strongly enough. And, oh my word, what an ending! Broken, utterly broken.

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holy moly

I knew the first would be hard to top but flippin heck, this was great

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Bloody good listen

A good listen. Couldn’t really stop listening. Great for long drives. I need four more words.

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Getting better and better 

Much less derivative than the first in the series and so a more interesting story. There's a lot of signposting of the way characters are going to develop but there are one or nice surprises. Being critical, there's a lot of a) plan for a fight, b) fight doesn't go to plan, c) miraculous event happens d) rinse and repeat which began to test my patience by the end. That said, I did marathon listen to this book and I will definitely get the third in the instalment.

The narrator has eased off on the anti-British with bad guys having slightly less pronounced English accents in contrast to the humble underdogs' Irish brogue. Sadly, there's some butchering of some new accents here: the Scandinavian is painful to listen to.

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Remarkable

i started with Red Rising on a recommendation. Complex, engaging and enormous fun. Brown, you have a reader for life.

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read it now

Its great a must read. Part of a series so be sure to read them all. it will change you

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Fantastic follow up to an amazing first book

I'd struggle to pick my favourite book in this series, as they all excel in different ways, but I can not recommend enough buying and listening to this sequel. If you enjoyed the first book you'll love this one.

Tim Gerard Reynolds does an amazing job bringing these characters to life, can't imagine these characters without his interpretations of them in my head

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Brilliant

Head line speaks for it's it self. Gripping tense enjoyable running out words to describe it.

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