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Golden Son (Red Rising Saga, #2)

Pierce Brown

Start date: August 1, 2015

Finish date: August 31, 2015

Discussion: Series

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Mar 03, 2018 Naomi rated it really liked it

on reread: I swear that I missed so much when I read this book the first time. I think the fact that it is so action packed with an absolutely absurd amount of characters made it easy to skim over things when I was devouring it the first time, so I'm glad I reread this to fully understand things I hadn't noticed before.

first read:
This was so good. There is something about these books that make them just so much better than I expect. Ridiculously fast paced and 90 percent action. A lot of the co ...more

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Sep 01, 2017 James Maxon rated it really liked it

I was thrown off in the beginning; the story starts in the middle of a battle that takes place a year after the first book ends. Initially, I felt that this should be book #3, not #2, as a year’s worth of story is missing. But I get why the author did it; he wanted to push the plot forward and start at a place of greater interest. As a reader, I didn’t like the big jump. I wanted to pick up where book #1 left off. That said, once I got past this and pulled back into the story [at this new point ...more

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Feb 02, 2018 Sarah rated it it was amazing

I wish I could give this 6 stars! I loved this even more than the first in the series.

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Nov 22, 2016 Pam rated it really liked it

Shelves: ya, 2016, dystopian-futuristic

Akin to Red Rising, this book has twists I didn't expect. War, love lost, betrayal.

The detail is on one hand excruciating and on the other almost necessary. It made it a bit harder to slog through (and I would definitely say it took me far too long to get fully into this book and finish it), but still 4-5 star worthy.

I don't know how this trilogy is going to end but that's kind of the beauty of this series. ...more

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