Morning Star Review: What Comes After Darrow Breaks the World
Morning Star begins with Darrow in ruins. Across Red Rising and Golden Son , he has learned to infiltrate the Society, manipulate its rules and break increasingly large pieces of its political order. Pierce Brown’s third Red Rising novel gives him a harder problem: what happens when destruction starts working? Darrow has already proved that he can inspire people, build alliances and win loyalty. What he has not proved is that any of those things can survive the collapse of the system around them. He knows how to turn the Society’s assumptions against it, win battles that should be unwinnable and force events forward before his enemies can recover. But a revolution eventually reaches the point where breaking the old order is no longer enough. Someone has to decide what comes afterwards, and Brown makes sure Darrow discovers how difficult that is. Poor Darrow. Spoiler note: This review discusses Darrow’s situation after Golden Son , the broad themes and character arcs of Morning ...