Golden Son by Pierce Brown Futuristic Science Fiction Dystopia Scribd Audio
This is book two of the Red Rising Saga where we catch up with Darrow, a Red, Golden Son by Pierce Brown Futuristic Science Fiction Dystopia Scribd Audio
This is book two of the Red Rising Saga where we catch up with Darrow, a Red, a miner of Mars and one of the lowest colors in this world, doing what he can to overthrow the Golds. The Golds are the rulers. Heartless and greedy, they will kill, rape, and torture the lower colors to keep themselves in power.
If you like politics, killing, war, and betrayal with a little space travel this is a good series, just as long as you can keep up with everything and everyone in this book. There is a lot. Backstabbing, killing, friendships, romantic interest, heartache, and a lot of characters, colors, alliances, planets, spaceships, etc to keep track of.
It's not a bad story, but it can be hard to follow. And it's worse if, like me, you let seven years go by after reading the first book. For the first quarter of the book or so, I was a little lost. I remembered some things, but there are still little things that I'm not sure of and there's not a lot of 'recap' to help. (I thought about re-reading the first book, but I only gave it three stars and my review didn't give me the encouragement to do so.)
There is A LOT of violence, so this is not suitable for readers under eighteen.
Other than feeling total depression from knowing that the hatred the characters feel about the other colors is based on reality, this one line from the book hit me hard! "Friendships take minutes to make, moments to break, years to repair." ~Pierce Brown Golden Son
Devil Said Bang by Richard Kadrey Sandman Slim #4 Fantasy Urban Supernatural Scribd Audio Ages: 18+
Stark, AKA Sandman Slim, AKA the New Lucifer, doesn't waDevil Said Bang by Richard Kadrey Sandman Slim #4 Fantasy Urban Supernatural Scribd Audio Ages: 18+
Stark, AKA Sandman Slim, AKA the New Lucifer, doesn't want the job, but he now rules over Hell, and it's not all torment and burning the sinners, there's politics, and that makes him want to go home even more.
It has been a few years since I read book 3 of this series, and there are things that I forgot, but while this story was interesting, and grabbed me, I don't want to go back and re-read it so I can remember them all. I think it was all of the similes that filled every other paragraph. OMG, some of them were hilarious, but even though none were repeated, it still got repetitive, thus irritating.
And while there was a lot of action, it too got repetitive. Action here, action there, and some over yonder. I know that's the story, but it started to feel as if it was going nowhere.
But speaking of action, this is full of language and violence. Yes, it's mostly monster violence, with gore, but with that and the very dark humor, I don't think it's unsuitable for readers under eighteen.
While I loved the dark humor and the adventure, the repetitiveness got boring.
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