Morning Star
Pierce Brown, 2016
A captive hero, a brutal hierarchy, and the cost of turning pain into purpose in the Red Rising saga.
Pierce Brown
Pierce Brown's Red Rising books are fast, loud, and full of grief: a boy from the Martian mines learns how the ruling caste keeps everyone in place, then goes to work against it from inside. Start with Red Rising, where sixteen-year-old Darrow digs helium under Mars and decides the order can be broken; Golden Son and Morning Star carry that same anger and loyalty forward.
Feels like defiance, war and love.
Start with Morning Star.
Pierce Brown wrote much of Red Rising in early mornings before his day job, then revised it after signing with an agent.
Everything is cracked except the moments that make it worth it.
I breathe in the full scent of her. If it ends tomorrow or in eighty years, I could breathe her for the rest of my life. But I want more. I need more. I tilt her slender jaw up with my hand so that she’s looking at me. I was going to say something important. Something memorable. But I’ve forgotten it in her eyes. That gulf that divided us is still there, filled with questions and recrimination and guilt, but that’s only part of love, part of being human. Everything is cracked, everything is stained except the fragile moments that hang crystalline in time and make life worth living. Books by Pierce Brown
Red Rising
Pierce Brown, 2014
A sixteen-year-old Helldiver in the helium mines under Mars, fastest hands in his clan, decides the order of things can be broken.
Golden Son
Pierce Brown, 2015
A young warlord trained by the ruling caste plots from inside their empire, chasing a fleet he means to turn against them.
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