Morning Star (Red Rising Series Book 3) by Pierce Brown (Epub)

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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

User’s Reviews

Review “You could call [Pierce] Brown science fiction’s best-kept secret. In Morning Star, the trilogy’s devastating and inspiring final chapter, . . . he flirts with volume, oscillating between thundering space escapes and hushed, tense parleys between rivals, where the cinematic dialogue oozes such specificity and suspense you could almost hear a pin drop between pages. His achievement is in creating an uncomfortably familiar world of flaw, fear, and promise.”—Entertainment Weekly“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)“Multilayered and seething with characters who exist in a shadow world between history and myth, much as in Frank Herbert’s Dune . . . an ambitious and satisfying conclusion to a monumental saga.”—Kirkus Reviews

Reviews from Amazon users, collected at the time the book is getting published on UniedVRG. It can be related to shiping or paper quality instead of the book content:

⭐ The first two books in this series were very good – five stars each. This book, however, was way longer than it should have been, and much less satisfying.In the first book, the hero (Darrow) does the unthinkable, rising from his lowest-caste status as a Red to the top shelf Gold. In the second book he meets people and wreaks havoc with the Society, which he aims to destroy. This book is very different from the others. It follows Darrow as he builds an army of loyalists and ships, and meets new and old people, some friendly, some not. At the beginning he finds himself imprisoned by his one-time (and some-time) friends, and as the book progresses he recruits allies to his cause. Along the way he runs repeatedly into enemies who have betrayed him over and over. Finally, at the very end, he seems to win, but suddenly loses, yet somehow emerges victorious.I think the story could be good, and it sort of wraps up what the hero set out to do in the first book, although with voluminous loose ends. (I assume books four through six will get the situation straightened out.) But all throughout there is so much unbelievable crap, like in a bad super spy thriller. People get cut to shreds yet suddenly win the fight. People do things that should get them killed, but amazingly live to fight again. (I REALLY got tired of ‘Aja’ popping up everywhere.) Darrow keeps trusting people he knows he shouldn’t, and keeps paying the price. Attacks overcome unbelievable odds only to be stymied by some inconsistent little detail.As in the previous book, Darrow keeps falling into apparently unwinnable situations but magically gets away. The worst of these episodes comes at the end of the book, when he attains a major victory over a main enemy. The author leads us to believe that the situation goes south, the good guys die, and the annoyingly recurrent, really bad people are seconds from victory. He even tells us what Darrow is thinking about – how he messed up and lost the war. Except that’s not what Darrow is thinking. He does something unforeseen and saves the day. We actually get lied to. Surprises and strange turns are what make books good, but to be jerked around like this doesn’t make readers happy. It seems like the ending was given a lot of twists, turns, and action to revive an otherwise slow moving sequel to the first two books, but really it just misleads and annoys the reader. After this treatment, it think it will be a long while before I consider starting book four.I am not a fan of run-on sentences. They can be used to great effect in the right situations, but this book is fraught with them, to the point that you find yourself tripping over the writing itself, wondering if you missed something. It’s irritating, and worse than in the previous books.And finally, the author should really learn the difference between “till” and “until”. It’s not that difficult.Did I like this book? Not especially. I had to read it because it was the next in the series. Will I read the next one? I don’t know.

⭐ SPOILERS ARE POSSIBLE. PROCEED WITH CAUTION.This book was the best conclusion I could have hoped for in regards to this series. My heart broke over and over (as per the norm for Pierce Brown), and then at the end it was put back together again. I am so in love with this series, I’ve been recommending it to everyone.I’m not sure if I mentioned it before or not, but I started this series on a couple of my friends’ recommendations. They told me just enough to keep me hooked, but also just enough to make me terrified to finish the book. I’m so glad they got me started on it, though. This review, as much as I would like for it to be only about Morning Star, is probably going to focus more on the series as whole. I can’t write a full review without spoiling everything.Brown’s world is one of the most complex I’ve ever seen; from the caste system down to each relationship that Darrow has with the other characters. Every one of the characters is so dynamic, you can’t help but love every single one of them, even when a few betray Darrow.Let’s talk about Darrow for a second. He is flawed, but his flaws are what make him such a good character. He tries to be noble and honorable, but he is selfish and cocky and he has a bad habit of betraying his friends. Darrow is not really a character that we fall in love with, despite everyone around him falling in love with him. We do, however, fall in love with his story and his world. It’s full of awful, terrible things, but it’s world where humans have pioneered into space. It’s a world with crazy technological advancements and the ability to create in ways that we cannot yet create. But, it’s broken, so we want to see it fixed.I loved seeing Darrow’s transformation. I especially enjoy how his view of Eo changes over the course of the books. In the beginning, she’s perfection in his eyes. He spends the whole of Red Rising mourning her, but by the time we hit Golden Son Darrow starts to realize that his life with Eo wasn’t everything he thought it was. By the end of Morning Star, it’s plain to Darrow that he’s fighting for Eo’s dream, but not really for Eo anymore. Of course he still mourns her death, as he likely always will, but he realizes there’s more to his fight.Though Darrow is our MC, Sevro is my favorite character. He’s obnoxious, brilliant, and disgusting. He’s comic relief to the extreme, Darrow’s foil, and an overall fantastic character. He’s described as short and ugly, callsign Goblin. He hates it, but in the end he finds love. He’s still a sarcastic, foul-mouthed, little creature, but he’s one of the best characters in the entire series.Virginia au Augustus (Mustang) is also very brilliant, beautiful of course, but I also enjoy how much of a BOSS she is. She had me a little scared at the end of Golden Son, but she worked her way back into my good graces as Morning Star progressed.Victra au Julii’s overt sexuality was at first irritating (I wasn’t sure if I was going to be able to like her character), but ended up being charming. She flirts unabashedly with just about everything that moves. But, she is also awesome, and things take an unexpected turn for her in the love department. It was great.Then there’s Ragnar. Sweet, giant, warrior Ragnar. Scary to look at. Scary to watch in battle. Loves kids. And I love him.The Telemanuses are loveable as well. Also giant. Also scary to watch in battle. Kevax has a fox that he loves as much as his own children. It really doesn’t get any better than that.Cassius au Bellona. Oh, Cassius.Roque au Fabii. I can’t even. I loved him even through everything.Those are just the characters I like. The villains, are all terrifying. Octavia, the Sovereign, is cunning. She has ruled the Society for 60 years, beheading her own father to take his throne. She has captured Darrow multiple times, and even though he’s escaped her, she’s not keen to let him go again.Aja, The Protean Knight and one of three Furies that protect the Sovereign. She’s fierce, a fighter with no rival, the best student of her teacher, Lorn au Arcos (the best Olympic Knight there ever was). She is truly fearsome. I wouldn’t want to be her prey.Adrius (The Jackal), Mustang’s twin, absolutely scares me. A sociopath with fighting skill, he manipulates his way around the politics of the Society, building a following of Golds and lowColors to use as he pleases. He is always a step ahead of Darrow. Speaking of, I want to share a thought that my friend Mary brought to my attention; a thought that I believe is brilliant. She had suggested one change for this series, one change I never would have thought of, but would have been great. She thinks the Jackal should have been a woman. Sit with that for a moment, and think. It’s common for the most vile of villains to be a man, but imagine if Adrius was a woman; how completely terrifying would she have been? Imagine, the face of the woman Darrow loves on his most formidable enemy; all of the horrors from Darrow forcing her to cut off her own hand, to the destruction at the end of Morning Star. Adrius’ withdrawal from Mustang after their mother left, ordering the death of her older brother. Imagine. She would have been more dreadful than any other person in this series. Mary’s right, it would have made the book that much better.These books overall were just phenomenal. I’m sad that it’s over, but I hear there’s going to be a spinoff novel, and that makes me happy again. Literally everyone needs to read these.

⭐ Just finished the entire trilogy. I made myself finish since I had invested so much time in the story. I wanted to love this, and I thought there was potential after reading Red Rising, however I am emencely disappointed.There was potential for a great human story, as well as an action novel, but I feel Pierce Brown did not rise to the occasion. He copied Susan Collins and the Hunger Games, but he failed to match her ability to carry a believable storyline through 3 novels.He opted for cheap theatrics, leading the story one way only to fool the reader that what they just read didn’t really happen the way it read. That might be okay once or twice, but not through out 3 novels. He portrays his characters one way only to lay waste to their evolution. I am not completely opposed to that style of writing, but after awhile, I lost the ability to believe anything about anyone of the characters and, I stopped caring.I usually finish a series and find myself missing the characters, like I just lost a friend. Not this time. Maybe if he spent more time writing the human story and less time creating a script for an action movie this could have been a better trilogy. It is clear to me the latter was the objective.

⭐ Review:Wow. Wow. Wow. This book. This series. This author. The Red Rising Saga has officially made it into my top five favorite book series of all time. The writing is superb, the complex characters are unforgettable, and the plot twists are jaw dropping.Plot: Original. Let me say that again. Brown has created an original story. I tire of reading the same plot with the same characters disguised as a new title. Thankfully, author Brown didn’t follow that trend. In the third installment of the Red Rising Saga, author Pierce Brown weaves an eloquent and brutal tapestry of heartbreaking themes. Betrayal litters the pages, questioning every character’s loyalty to Darrow. The pacing is fantastic. It ebbs and flows with the perfect amount of breathing room after heart-thumping action sequences. Though Brown guides you effortlessly through the galaxy, Morning Star is not for those who struggle with extravagant world-building. The cast of characters is long, and the complexity of the different planets is dense. As a writer, I have learned valuable tips and tricks from the talented Pierce Brown. Now, I will say this. The biggest plot twist was a gut-wrenching scene. I never saw it coming and neither did Darrow, or so I thought. Pages later, you discover that this horrible incident was planned by the Reaper and his pals all along, something I struggled to comprehend. Why? Because the book is written in first person present tense. If the protagonist has a secret, the reader has a right to know. Darrow expressed every emotion throughout the book, but suddenly withholds information so the author can trick the reader into thinking his beloved characters are all in grave danger. Hmm. Is this cheating? Perhaps. This is why I docked a star from my rating. Brown wanted the reader to feel a deep anguish, which I did, but once you discover the ruse, the shock value diminishes, transforming into irritation.Characters: Darrow, Servo, Mustang, Cassius, Ragnar, the Jackal…the list goes on and on. The characters Brown created don’t linger in your mind after reading, they stay imprinted forever. The emotional connection I felt toward these brave, morally grey, loyal, and twisted souls rattled me in the way literature should. Brown’s cast is deeply flawed. Their internal struggles are relatable, even though they live in a fictional world.Writing: Pierce Brown is my new gold standard author. His ability to create vivid details without boring fluff had me taking notes. His dialogue is never forced. It flows naturally. He varies his sentence structure, uses vocabulary that elevates his literature without sounding pretentious, and leaves you wanting more and more of the characters and worlds he created.Final Thoughts: I can’t say enough about Morning Star, the third book in the Red Rising Trilogy. It hit every mark for epic science fiction. Writers, I encourage you to read Pierce Brown’s work if you want to improve your own writing.Triggers/Warnings: graphic violence, adult languagePlot: 4/5Pacing: 5/5Escapism Factor: 5/5Emotional Connection: 5/5Character Development: 5/5Star Rating

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⭐️Completed Read: November 2021

⭐ It is a rare occurrence indeed that a series gets better and better and better….!I’m an 8th grade English teacher that reads every book that I put on my shelves, and Mr. Brown’s books happened to be next on my list. Unfortunately, these books aren’t quite appropriate due to the more mature adult content, but…WOW. Am I thrilled I came across this series!Mr. Brown, I’ve read hundreds of books, in every genre there is, and this makes the top five in my reading career! The twisting plot, the beautiful development of the characters … I’ve been ruined. I’ve tried three books since I’ve finished Morning Star and I’ve deleted each one from my kindle because they just can’t compare. I suppose I’ll sit and slowly digest this gem of a novel…I’ve already ordered 10 copies of the first book to pass out to my friends – don’t miss out on this series, my fellow readers!

⭐ Morning Star is the third book in Pierce Brown’s Red Rising Trilogy. While I did not enjoy it as much as the previous two books, it nevertheless provides a satisfying if uneven conclusion to the saga.Like its two predecessors, Morning Star is action-packed from beginning to end. But despite its fast pacing, the first half of the book did not really grab my attention. While I was reading the first two books, I was constantly on the edge of my seat, wondering what Darrow was going to do next and if he was going to be exposed as an impostor. With his secrets now in the open, and with more than half of the book still to go, I was in no doubt that he would succeed in whatever missions he embarked upon, which significantly lessened the suspense quotient. Furthermore, there is a tonal shift in the first part of the book that is quite jarring. In order to bolster his army, Darrow seeks an alliance with the Obsidians, a tribe of fierce warriors who for decades have been duped into worshiping the Golds as gods. The Obsidians are a primitive people who still fight with spears and ride giant griffins. This part of the book reads more like a medieval fantasy than the science fiction I signed up for. While other readers may not be bothered by this, it is just not my cup of tea.Once we are past the midway point, the book picks up considerably. The tactics Darrow uses to best his foes in battle are often brilliant; and there are plenty of twists to keep readers guessing. But what gives the book its emotional impact is the nuanced relationship between Darrow and his enemies. Many of these are people whom Darrow used to call friends; and care is taken not to demonize them, but to portray them as people who believe in their cause as strongly as Darrow believes in his. Of course, there are a few foaming-at-the-mouth villains that readers would be more than happy to root against, but Darrow’s refusal to let some of his friendships go is what makes part of this book truly heartbreaking. Luckily, things are not all dark. Darrow’s friends Sevro, Virginia, and Victra are all given their moment in the sun and their support is what gives Darrow the strength to do what he needs to do.In the end, Morning Star is an enjoyable if flawed book. The ever shifting loyalty between Darrow’s friends, enemies, and allies are confusing at times; and towards the end, there are too many twists and the ending is too neatly tied up. One twist in particular is such a deus ex machina that it cheapened the impact of what came before. Still, one can do worse when it comes to books of this genre and on the strength of the series as a whole, I would heartily recommend it.

⭐ I zipped through the first two books despite their plodding paces only to get stuck on this one. I fully expect a first book in a series to be a slow burn because world building and character introductions need to happen. I even expect a little slog during a second book because that’s generally the heart of the journey where the characters are “developed”. This book though, it’s almost as if the author didn’t even read his own books. The characters don’t develope, and the story doesn’t really exist. The end is a dirty trick that I found hard to swallow. If you’re here then you’ll already know that this site has a tendency to fill the first 80% with a lot of nothing interspersed with random action with the last 20% having a ton of action and endless lists of names thrown at you with a big dramatic end that’s relatively unexpected. He attempts it again here and it just doesn’t work. I don’t think I can go on to the next books in the series.

⭐ Pierce Brown’s conclusion to his Red Rising space opera trilogy is his most accomplished novel yet. The plot concerns itself not only with how Darrow can lead his rebellion to overthrow the ruling Gold class, but also how to ensure his war does not devolve into terrorism and how to raise a new society from the ashes that is better than the one overthrown.The author does not deliver a cheap, easy Return of the Jedi climax. The evil empire is not felled with one short battle with no plan of how to transition power. In fact, as the war rages both sides splinter, old foes and friends realign in surprising configurations, and new cultures enter the fray and upend political sentiments.Nor does the book go full-on Mockingjay. The rebels are not suddenly revealed to be just as bad–or worse–than the old regime. The resolution of the character arcs and the various conflicts is more nuanced and intriguing.This series is highly recommended.

⭐ * Full Review on Goodreads & My Blog*BREAK THE CHAINS! OMNIS VIR LUPUS!God!!!!!!!!! This book was so freaking good I can’t even people! But there were more deaths. There always are, but I had forgotten on purpose some of the deaths. One damn near broke my heart.One of my loves is gone….. I have to stop loving people in books, damn it!The crew is fighting all of the evil peeps once again and it finally comes to a head. A few heads.Re-reading these books on audio has brought me right into the world where it just got me on the edge the first time I read them. They are one of my favorite trilogies now and we have a saga taking the books farther. I’m going to be stressed so much on these next three books. How many more of my loves are going to be killed. How many more people am I going to fall in love with and then they die or maybe not.There were so many parts in the book I wanted to kill the bad people myself. It was so horrible I can’t even stand it! And I was a little mad at Mustang for things she did but I also understand too. I know that doesn’t really makes sense but there you have it.The ending made me cry so much. Good tears and that’s all I have to say.*EXCERPT I can be a builder, not just a destroyer. Eo and Fitchner saw that when I could not. They believed in me. So whether they wait for me in the Vale or not, I feel them in my heart, I hear their echo beating across the worlds. I see them in my son, and, when he is old enough, I will take him on my knee and his mother and I will tell him of the rage of Ares, the strength of Ragnar, the honor of Cassius, the love of Sevro, the loyalty of Victra, and the dream of Eo, the girl who inspired me to live for me.*END EXCERPTlittle Pax . . .Happy Reading!Mel ♥

⭐ Bloodydamn.. it’s over. And I’m sad that it is. Though, I’ve only just heard to today that Pierce is hard at work on a new trilogy set in this universe, so I’m not as bummed out as I otherwise would be at having finished this excellent series of books.I don’t remember why I bought Red Rising, but I did so on a whim, and because it was cheap. On sale for $1.99 I believe. I’m so glad that I did. It is a fun thing following along with a series you love, anticipating its releases, pondering each new installment. And as the last piece of the trilogy, Morning Star did not disappoint. I tell everyone that I recommend these to that Pierce Brown has a gift for plot. And he does! These books grip you at some point during Red Rising and they just do not let you go until the very last page here. Readers new to the series have the advantage of being able to read the story in its entirety back to back to back. I envy you.If you are looking for an action-packed, fast-paced, emotional rollercoaster of a sci-fi series then look no further. Here it is.I feel the need to voice a minor quibble with the book. I stand by my 5-star rating wholeheartedly. However I found myself a little bothered by the editing of this one. I’m not sure if this was an issue specifically with the Kindle version or the print as well, but I noticed too many mistakes. A word missing here or a word added there, grammatical errors that made no sense, etc. Typically you might see two or three of these in a novel, and I felt like I noticed at least ten here. Maybe I’m being anal but it bothered me. With that being said, a minor editing quibble is nothing compared to the time I had reading this trilogy. It was a ride I’m sad to get off of. And if you’ve yet to ride it yourself well, what are you waiting for?

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