Golden Son (Red Rising Saga #2) by Pierce Brown.

"The second installment in Pierce Brown's epic Space opera skips ahead a few years and shows Darrow's continuing integration into Gold society. There's agendas upon plots upon schemes as well as love, loss, betrayal and death. Pierce Brown doesn't miss a beat and that ending is truly insane."

Pros: Fast paced and action packed, it still had the same heart shattering plot/characters as the first/That ending, like, whoa...

Cons: Sometimes there were a few too many characters, hard to keep everyone and all their dealings straight.

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***Disclaimer - If you have not read Red Rising by Pierce Brown, please do so and then feel free to read this post at your leisure. That way, you'll know what I'm talking about 🙌.***

Darrow broke all the rules at the end of Red Rising by storming Olympus. After crushing the Institute and swearing himself to House Augustus, Darrow spent a year on the Augustus estate. Things were good, peaceful but, he and Mustang, didn't part on the best of terms. She didn't want him to go to the Academy, essentially, Space combat school. She felt like if he did, he'd just become another one of her Fathers killers. And she knows he's better than that.

He wonders sometimes though. Especially when a victorious moment turns into deadly catastrophe at the Academy and thousands are killed in an instant. Unfortunately, it's all Darrow's fault. And he falls out of favor with Augustus, who relieves him of his position. Without the protection of the Arch Governor, Darrow knows it's only a matter of time before Cassius comes looking for blood.

In desperation, he forms a shady alliance with the Jackal, knowing he can't trust him but having no other choice. That is, until the Sons of Ares come in and start blowing stuff up. Darrow accepts his next mission, knowing its suicide but in true epic hero fashion, he manages to beat the odds and survive. His actions bring him before Octavia Au Lune, the ruling Sovereign and the discuss this blood feud with House Bellona. During this, Darrow realizes that the Sovereign is playing favorites with her Politicos. And House Augustus is on the chopping block.

There's subterfuge, duels, mutilations, assassination attempts, epic battles and an ending that rears up and smacks you upside the head with no warning. It still hits just as hard even on my third read-through. There was barely a sign of Second Book Syndrome with Golden Son and of course, Morning Star is sitting on my nightstand, waiting to be read. This is an awesome series and I would highly recommend.

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