Elliott’s Reviews > Dark Age > Status Update

I've devoured this book once again. It's a long, dark ride but paced perfectly.

Excellent pacing, characterization, dialog, and writing in general. Pierce Brown balances several different storylines and does them all justice, from a large-scale hellish war of attrition for Mercury to contrasting accounts of nasty political intrigue on Luna and Mars. Similar to Iron Gold, I initially gave this book a 4 because I thought it was oppressively dark, but on the second read I have to give it a 5.

Still an incredible, dark entry in a great series

Yes, this is a re-read, but it's the first book in a WHILE for which I've had zero complaints about the writing. Pierce Brown, Christopher Buehlman, and Daniel Kraus are the only modern genre fiction authors I can trust.

Continuing my Red Rising saga re-read. I think I took for granted how well these books are written the first time I read them, and now I'm trying to escape a rut of mediocre books.