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Books by Pierce Brown
Red Rising
by Pierce Brown
· published 2014 · read 2017-07-13
★★★☆☆
Wooop! Sci-Fi version of Hunger Games with real characters (Mary Sue-ish, but still fun). Also, touches of Brave New World in terms of castes.
Golden Son
by Pierce Brown
· published 2015 · read 2018-08-07
★★☆☆☆
Golden Son was a worthy successor to Red Rising. It, too, had a slow start, only here te start extends to the 50% mark of the book. After that, a slow and generic story picks up speed, originality, and its past characteristics. Even at its best though it's still forced in a way that's hard to describe: As if everything happened just because the author willed it that way, and may as well have happened completely differently without breaking any internal logic. The wooden language doesn't help either. I felt there was a lot of unfulfilled potential in this book, and I'm not sure if I'm going to continue the series.