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Morning Star (Red Rising Saga, #3)

Pierce Brown

Start date: February 9, 2016

Finish date: February 29, 2016

Discussion: 2016 Completed Reads Archive

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Oct 08, 2015 Bradley rated it it was amazing

Shelves: fanboy-goes-squee, sci-fi, 2016-shelf

So, now that I've just finished reading this great novel, I've lined up a whole bunch of spoilers for you. Are you ready?

Just kidding.

This is easily one of the most satisfying pure SF space-opera-ish revolutionary high-tech adventures I've ever read. I've mentioned before that I love the pacing, the story is strong as hell, and the characters are all pretty much awesome.

Well this time, I can also say that any of my previous concerns about the culture, such as the Reds and how they actually fit i So, now that I've just finished reading this great novel, I've lined up a whole bunch of spoilers for you. Are you ready?

Just kidding.

This is easily one of the most satisfying pure SF space-opera-ish revolutionary high-tech adventures I've ever read. I've mentioned before that I love the pacing, the story is strong as hell, and the characters are all pretty much awesome.

Well this time, I can also say that any of my previous concerns about the culture, such as the Reds and how they actually fit into the revolution or the question about why they'd have to keep mining if there's so many robots around to do the work for them, are both answered almost as if the author had taken me aside and given me exactly what I had asked for. (So obviously I'm tickled pink.)

I only had one tiny quibble that showed up at the very end that kinda pissed me off, but every single thing else about this novel was delightful fun, full of exciting action, perfect character development, and a shameless pandering to my deep-down desire to have things work out wonderfully. What more could I ask for? The story was excellent and believable, from making me love those damn siblings at the open, through making me freak out about Mustang, making me cry for the bromance with Sevro, all the way to the moment when the Kwisatz Haderach walked into the throne room... oh... wait... wrong book. :)

This book was simply so much unabashed fun, full of clever, full of excellent storytelling, full of life and love and strive, strive, strive. I can't imagine there being a better capstone to this trilogy. It fully succeeds with everything we were promised at book one, and that's impressive mainly because we were promised a damn lot.

*giddy dance*

I am a FAN. :) :)

This is what good SF is!

That is, if you're looking for the pure revolutionary high-tech splendor, of course. :)
Woot!

So all you other authors... Why don't we have more of this stuff? Eh? I want more wonder and less dystopia, please. I think it's time for the wheel to turn. :) ...more

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Oct 08, 2015 Amanda rated it it was amazing

Absolutely loved this series.

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Jan 18, 2015 Justine rated it it was amazing

Shelves: 2016-read, favourites

4.5 stars rounded up.

Morning Star is an exciting finish to the action-packed Red Rising trilogy. The book takes its time with the pacing and spends some time on character growth, and of course, it is a war story so there can't be a happy ending for all.

Ultimately, however, it doesn't disappoint when it comes to wrapping up the story in a satisfying way. ...more

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Mar 22, 2015 Niki Hawkes - The Obsessive Bookseller rated it it was amazing

Shelves: audible-tbr

This is the book where, naturally, all the conflicts come to a head. I expected epic battles, huge throwdowns between the heavy hitters, and to have my emotions jerked from one extreme to the other. What I did not expect was the colossal amount of character growth, which took the story from entertaining to almost… personal. It narrowed the conflict for a bit and forced the characters to really analyze their priorities and solidify their convictions within this fight. Morning Star was easily the ...more

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Oct 09, 2015 Lindsay rated it really liked it

The trilogy concludes in a very satisfying way hitting all the emotional points it needs to and leaving few character or plot-based loose ends.

I can't really give much of a plot summary without spoiling the hell out of the second book, so I won't. Safe to say that all the surviving favorites from the first book have appearances and solid arcs here even if some of those arcs don't end well. Brown has never stinted with killing off characters or even just brutally torturing and maiming them.

I hav ...more

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Jan 28, 2016 Scott rated it it was amazing

What a truly wonderful ending. I'm sort of speechless right now, it met any and all expectations I had built up from the first two books!

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Jan 08, 2016 Suzanne rated it it was amazing

Shelves: audio, dystopian

4.5 stars - this was a brutal and satisfying end to a good series. When I first started Red Rising, I wasn't sure if I wanted to even finish the book, but I'm glad I did - and that I continued. I did the trilogy in audible, and Tim Gerard Reynolds is one of my very favorite readers. I can't really say much about this book without possibly introducing spoilers - but I can definitely recommend it!

Note: I changed my mind and decided to round up the rating because....it toyed with my emotions and th ...more

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Feb 22, 2016 Robyn rated it liked it

Shelves: 2016

A satisfying conclusion to the trilogy. (Yep, I'm apparently just doing one-sentence reviews right now.) ...more

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Dec 29, 2015 Helen rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Well, Mr Brown, hats off. From the outset when you killed off one of my new favourite characters to the ending where I thought you were killing off, well, everyone else, it soared. There were joyous moments, sweet romantic leanings, tears by the bucketload.

It is a war so there are deaths, incredible violence, dining tables and bravery. Overall, a very satisfactory conclusion.

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Mar 02, 2016 Christina Pilkington rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favorites-of-all-time

How can a science fiction book be so unbelievably, gorgeously written while at the same time be cleverly and masterfully plotted and have characters that change and grow so much throughout the course of the series, and make me want to curl up in bed and do absolutely nothing with my life until the story was done?

This book. This book. What can I say? It was pretty perfect. I think if any author wanted to start and carry out a revolution, Pierce Brown could do it. There was one scene in particular ...more

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