Either it was at book three that I started to get in the mood for this series. Or it's at book three that Pierce Brown started to get better at writing and plot. There are quite a few bits I liked.

Crabs skittering over the corpses, making meals of the dead, as a lone ribbon of smoke twirled and twirled up to the stars, the old soundless echo of war.

Poetic!

When the assault forces land to take back the military spire and the Needles, they’ll leave their shuttles behind in those hangars. Sevro will descend from his hiding place, hijack the shuttles, and return them home to their ships, packed with all the Sons we have left.

Clever!

Justice isn’t about fixing the past, it’s about fixing the future.

Wise!

For at least a part of the book, the hero is not the best fighter in the universe. They have spent a year in a table. They have been outed as a Red and now wear a surgically modified body for no reason. (Well, it does make them a superhuman body-builder at least.) This works surprisingly well! I expected the disguised life among the enemy to be more thrilling and dramatic than it was. This un-disguised life among friends, however, turns out surprisingly thrilling and dramatic! Who leads the Sons of Ares now? How do we actually build a better world by blowing things up? Good stuff.

The ending is really satisfying and well done! Finally a twist that is pulled off correctly and does not feel cheap. It's awesome!