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  • Book III of the Red Rising Trilogy
  • Written by: Pierce Brown
  • Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds
  • Length: 21 hrs and 50 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (1,821 ratings)

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Morning Star

Written by: Pierce Brown
Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds
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Darrow would have lived in peace, but his enemies brought him war. The Gold overlords demanded his obedience, hanged his wife, and enslaved his people. But Darrow is determined to fight back. Risking everything to transform himself and breach Gold society, Darrow has battled to survive the cutthroat rivalries that breed Society's mightiest warriors, climbed the ranks, and waited patiently to unleash the revolution that will tear the hierarchy apart from within.

Finally, the time has come.

But devotion to honor and hunger for vengeance run deep on both sides. Darrow and his comrades-in-arms face powerful enemies without scruple or mercy. Among them are some Darrow once considered friends. To win, Darrow will need to inspire those shackled in darkness to break their chains, unmake the world their cruel masters have built, and claim a destiny too long denied - and too glorious to surrender.

©2016 Pierce Brown (P)2016 Recorded Books

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A solid ending to a first Trilogy.

At the end of book 2 I was so on the edge of my seat to find out what happens next. I jumped into this one immediately. At the end of this one I felt very satisfied with the conclusion of the first Trilogy and could happily put the series down if there weren't 2 more to dive into right away. This story built up lots of tension in the right way and had several unexpected twists that kept me on my toes trying to figure out what would happen next this series is fantastic and I have a hard time restraining myself from continually recommending it.

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Wow

That author can really drag me emotionally in all directions. Impressive book I loved it su much. Fantastic work from the voice actor too. Im really sad to know they remplace him by 5 differents in the next book and make consider reading the last two instead.

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Good ending to the series. few missteps

I felt like the final book did a good job of ending the series properly. The characters go through a lot and there are a few surprises along the way. Some big showdowns and big space battles. Vocal performance was great again, wished there was some more variety, but always pleasant and understandable.
The politics take a massive step back this time and focus on the action this time. I felt like the series' reoccurring issues of meandering and getting stuck on mundane parts happens too often again. It really is a simpler series than I would have liked it to be, some deeper commentary on the different political spheres would've been interesting.
Generally the story took time to get started and didn't really play up massive space battles properly as they were about to happen.
Some good surprises from characters old and new. There was interesting growth for them and space to breathe for the large cast, which was definitely welcome after book 2 refused to share it's narrative with anyone but Darrow for longer than 2 minutes.
Overall I'd give it a 6.6/10 for the whole series. Not bad, but not exactly special

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Great Story but...

... it has dragged out too long. It seems thata few plot points could have been dropped due to redundancy.

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I'm so glad I found this series!

Wow, what a trilogy. Somehow there are more books in this series, but it wraps up perfectly at the end of this one. I will tackle book 4 after I get through a few others.

I've enjoyed everything about this series so far and I have to say that Mustang is my new fictional character crush. I would love to see this as a streaming series, but I feel like it might need to be animated. Otherwise it would be difficult to have 7 and 8 ft characters of perfect stature and beauty just interacting with normies. Highly recommended.

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Game of thrones in space

This story is crazy! Very good performance and the turns in the story are amazing.

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The characters

Amazing writing,Voice acting was great.

The characters All Stood out.
Love the Howlers And The Goblin Is The Sh!t.

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Good change in pace and a refreshing expansion on characters

The audio recording is of poor quality and varies between narrators which is frustrating at times.

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Excellent

Loved the series. Kept me interested throughout and would love to find something else to listen to that can hold my attention and that I enjoy listening to.

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Great Narration

love the narrator of these books. he brings life to the story. the series has grown on me and this book has been one of my favourites.

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