A review by purple_candy
Golden Son by Pierce Brown
adventurous
dark
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
I chewed through this one real quick!
I enjoyed this book much more than the first, here we got to really experience the actual world instead of being constrained to the academy. Reading these following books in the series, I think I can pretty safely conclude that I really, really don't like the battle royale trope, it's too insular and the stakes are too divorced from the actual stakes of the larger world.
In this book, we get to see Darrow's rise as a Gold, we learn about their society and their values. There is some really excellent world-building and seeing how Darrow navigates the rationalizes his experiences is really well-done.
This book leaves you on quite the cliff-hanger, I ended up picking up the next book straight away!
I enjoyed this book much more than the first, here we got to really experience the actual world instead of being constrained to the academy. Reading these following books in the series, I think I can pretty safely conclude that I really, really don't like the battle royale trope, it's too insular and the stakes are too divorced from the actual stakes of the larger world.
In this book, we get to see Darrow's rise as a Gold, we learn about their society and their values. There is some really excellent world-building and seeing how Darrow navigates the rationalizes his experiences is really well-done.
This book leaves you on quite the cliff-hanger, I ended up picking up the next book straight away!