Late to the party since I just finished the book last night, but I absolutely loved it! Probably my favorite of the second series, and it recaptured a lot of the original trilogy’s charm.
[SPOILERS] That ending dealt such a melancholic blow that I couldn’t do much else the rest of the evening. The entire storyline of their reunion was just so perfectly written, like almost the rest of Brown’s work.
He didn’t start adding new perspectives until his second set of series, but I totally agree. I thought it was such a refreshing take to only focus on a single character in such an open and expansive world, but after finishing Light Bringer last night, I promise that it’s completely worth it! It recaptured the original trilogy’s essence in such a masterful way.
I promise the teen angst evaporates quickly! I honestly believe it was meant to dissipate as the main character’s perspective gets rocked to the realities of life. And by book 2, it’s as somber and grim as anything GRR Martin would write!
Shouldn’t the author of Red Rising be Pierce Brown? But I can’t wait to listen to it! Just waiting to finish the last book of the Stormlight Archives first!
The Expanse and Red Rising series is exactly what he’s looking for! Also the Bobbiverse is a decent addition!
Funnily enough, I had this conversation with some friends that Taylor Swift would probably sweep the electoral college. Highly popular, progressive, white (to get a few of the Republican voters whose vote is base on the way their rep looks), and has a fan base that can potentially outmatch MAGA if her name was on the ballot.
Whether she would be a successful politician, on the other hand, can be cleared by the fact that we survived 4 years of Trump. So it can’t be worse than that fiasco.