Morning Star – Red Rising Trilogy #3 – Pierce Brown
Release date: February 11th, 2016 Publisher: Hodderscape Age Group: (Young) Adult Pages: 510 Format: Hardcover Source: Bought Darrow would have lived in peace, but his enemies brought him war. The Gold overlords demanded his obedience, hanged his wife, and enslaved his people. But Darrow is determined to fight back. Risking everything to transform himself and breach Gold society, Darrow has battled to survive the cutthroat rivalries that breed Society’s mightiest warriors, climbed the ranks, and waited patiently to unleash the revolution that will tear the hierarchy apart from within. Finally, the time has come. But devotion to honor and hunger for vengeance run deep on both sides. Darrow and his comrades-in-arms face powerful enemies…
Red Rising – Red Rising #1 – Pierce Brown
Release date: January 16th, 2014 Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Age Group: (Young) Adult Pages: 382 Format: e-book Source: Received from the publisher in exchange for an honest review The Earth is dying. Darrow is a Red, a miner in the interior of Mars. His mission is to extract enough precious elements to one day tame the surface of the planet and allow humans to live on it. The Reds are humanity’s last hope. Or so it appears, until the day Darrow discovers it’s all a lie. That Mars has been habitable – and inhabited – for generations, by a class of people calling themselves the Golds. A class of people who look down on Darrow and his…
Best Reads of 2014
I’ve read way less books than I wanted this year, which makes me a bit sad. Life has gotten a bit in the way of my reading and though I’ve had a very busy and fun year, I miss the many hours spent on the couch with a book. But the books I did read were all very, very good. I think there was only one book that wasn’t really my cup of tea, some books that I thought were ok, but most of them were such awesome reads! There are only 3 more days left in 2014, so it’s time to pick the Best Reads of 2014. It was…