Review

Iron Gold

by Pierce Brown 

I LOVE the original trilogy, so I went into Iron Gold with high hopes. Were they unrealistically high hopes? Maybe so, but it's all Pierce Brown's fault for making the first three books so great. 

Iron Gold takes place ten years after the end of Morning Star. The revolution is over, and instead of bringing peace and freedom to all Colors, it has only brought war and strife. While it still has some of the characters that we know and love from the first books, you are also introduced to a few new ones. 

Colleen's Review: ⭐⭐⭐✰✰ (SPOILERS)

The book is told from four different characters' POV: Darrow, Lysander, Lyria, and Ephraim, and if I'm being honest, Darrow's perspective is my least favorite in Iron Gold. It's so predictable and...boring. I really wish we would have gotten some more interaction between him and his son, Pax (Fingers crossed that there's more of that in the next book 🤞). And while I like the new views, all I can think is that I would kill for one of these POVs to be Sevro's. 🙏 I feel like the switching between characters was very choppy at some points, and you are having to completely pivot right when you're getting into the story of a different character you're reading.

The plot is painfully slow for the first half of the book. If I'm perfectly fine with putting a book down for days on end after only reading 30-ish pages, we've got a problem, and that doesn't bode well for my rating. I will say that it did redeem itself in the latter half when all of the separate POVs started to come together and the action really started to pick up. For that I'm giving this book three stars. While this is definitely my least favorite of the Red Rising books so far, I'm still excited to see what happens in Dark Age.

Colleen