Lord of Candy reviewed Iron Gold by Pierce Brown (Red Rising Saga, #4)
Review of 'Iron Gold' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
This series turns more into something comic book oriented the longer I read it. Not a hit, just the way it seems to flow overall. The prose is solid as Brown is good at but I felt that its story getting split into nearly three stories that barely fit together could have been segregated into 2 books instead of one. Darrow is.. well he's got his own adventure and the space they give him is almost too much before we orbit back, and again, it's only setting a stage when we could have had much more to chew on. Then the other sides of the book introduce both new motivated characters and an echelon of forgotten extra-solar folks who are plotting a return and that was where this book mainly settled.
I liked it, wasn't as in love as the prior chunky series but I'm glad we'll continue on and …
This series turns more into something comic book oriented the longer I read it. Not a hit, just the way it seems to flow overall. The prose is solid as Brown is good at but I felt that its story getting split into nearly three stories that barely fit together could have been segregated into 2 books instead of one. Darrow is.. well he's got his own adventure and the space they give him is almost too much before we orbit back, and again, it's only setting a stage when we could have had much more to chew on. Then the other sides of the book introduce both new motivated characters and an echelon of forgotten extra-solar folks who are plotting a return and that was where this book mainly settled.
I liked it, wasn't as in love as the prior chunky series but I'm glad we'll continue on and with the stage now set for some further difficult choices and realities look forward to seeing where it's going.
