Morning Star by Pierce Brown

Pierce Brown you’ve done it again. How many times can you honestly say you got absolutely everything you wanted from the final book in a series? This is the rarest of finales the truly delivers on everything that has come before and manages to give huge satisfaction to the reader as it ties up every loose end without being remotely predictable or seeming contrived.

Darrow, Mustang, Sevro, Victra, Cassius, the Jackel, Roque, the Telemanus’s and a few others will forever be a part of my mental library when thinking of characters or even ‘people I knew’. I love that Pierce was able to give us such a good insight into these individual minds even though we only saw the world through Darrow’s eyes. Maybe it was that Darrow was so open and receptive to those around him, and in this book especially truly a product of his friends and family

Fortunately there is little to no sad farewell to the world Brown has created with the incredibly welcome announcement that he will continue the series, set 10 years later and under the name “Iron Gold”. This is a huge relief to myself and many other Howlers who have no desire to give up those characters, that world and the incredible way Brown has of putting you right there in the action. The inability to put my in a completely foreign situation, especially when it comes to interplanetary locations, is something that has turned me off a book in the past but there are no problems here. Every sentence feels like it might have been spoken by Rutger Hauer in his “Tears in Rain” monologue at the end of Blade Runner.

If you are looking for a new book to read, check out Red Rising. If you’ve already read the first two books I have no doubt you already have this one on your list. Move it to the top. Trust me.