Dark Age
Book 5 of the Red Rising Saga
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4.7 • 2.4K Ratings
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The bestselling author of Morning Star returns to the Red Rising universe with the thrilling sequel to Iron Gold.
“Brown’s plots are like a depth charge of nitromethane dropped in a bucket of gasoline. His pacing is 100% him standing over it all with a lit match and a smile, waiting for us to dare him to drop it.”—NPR (Best Books of the Year)
He broke the chains. Then he broke the world….
A decade ago Darrow led a revolution, and laid the foundations for a new world. Now he’s an outlaw.
Cast out of the very Republic he founded, with half his fleet destroyed, he wages a rogue war on Mercury. Outnumbered and outgunned, is he still the hero who broke the chains? Or will he become the very evil he fought to destroy?
In his darkening shadow, a new hero rises.
Lysander au Lune, the displaced heir to the old empire, has returned to bridge the divide between the Golds of the Rim and Core. If united, their combined might may prove fatal to the fledgling Republic.
On Luna, the embattled Sovereign of the Republic, Virginia au Augustus, fights to preserve her precious demokracy and her exiled husband. But one may cost her the other, and her son is not yet returned.
Abducted by enemy agents, Pax au Augustus must trust in a Gray thief, Ephraim, for his salvation.
Far across the void, Lyria, a Red refugee accused of treason, makes a desperate bid for freedom with the help of two unlikely new allies.
Fear dims the hopes of the Rising, and as power is seized, lost, and reclaimed, the worlds spin on and on toward a new Dark Age.
Don’t miss any of Pierce Brown’s Red Rising Saga:
RED RISING • GOLDEN SON • MORNING STAR • IRON GOLD • DARK AGE • LIGHT BRINGER
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
We were downright shaken by this fifth installment in Pierce Brown’s Red Rising sci-fantasy series. When Darrow’s story first began, he was on a mission to rescue his people from an inhumane caste system. But the devious twists of the ensuing years have engulfed the entire solar system in war, threatening to drag humanity into a bleak new age of endless suffering. If past books in the series often felt like a web of corridors where cruelty and violence could lurk around any corner, Dark Age is one giant, chaotic room where acts of terror, viciousness, and bloodshed are happening everywhere, no matter where you turn. No character is safe from the multitude of villains who flood the worlds at this vulnerable moment, each driven by craven self-interest, or worse. If there’s any hope for a dawn in the Red Rising series, this is truly the darkness before it.
Customer Reviews
Pierce is my goat
The divine rollercoaster of emotional turmoil and flagrant plot twists that eek and ebb at the mind of any reader.
I wish I could read every piece of the first 5 over and over for the first time, but now I get to read them over and over learning new things as if I read it the first time.
What am I to do now?
I ache from reading this. There is nothing that can console me now.
Overall good but too much filler
The book goes off into tangents that do not lead to a better story.