A review by epsyphus
Dark Age by Pierce Brown

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

Damn. Honestly, like what a freaking ride this one was. I'm tempted to just have what surely is at least 4 pages worth of texts I sent Ashlyn (she has already read it) stand as my review. It's a lot of caps lock yelling and demanding Pierce Brown meet me in the parking lot. It was a very brutal book that contained a lot of death and the horrors of war. I knew it would be like that, I knew to expect characters to be introduced only to die, but damn man. Tear my heart out why don't you.

Giving us back Alexander and the hope for him and Rhonna to have time together only to have Lysander shoot him point blank was freaking diabolical. I knew Ephraim would die from the moment he swore to Sefi that he would rather die than have Volga be her heir, but it was so much more devastating and even rather hopeless than I thought it would be.

And yet, throughout all the parts that made me want to scream (and there were a lot) there were moments that were so sweet and had me laughing out loud. This book had me gasping and making faces in public like a crazy person, had me feeling all types of emotions, and I just loved it. I'm getting Light Bringer from the library tomorrow.