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Darrow and Lysander by iparwing
#fanart#red rising#golden son#morning Star#iron gold#dark age#darrow of lykos#lysander au lune#light bringer#pierce brown#red rising series#red rising saga
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What to read after Light Bringer? (Series similar to Red Rising)
August 2023 update!
Red Rising is my favorite series of all time, and since I first read it, I have sought series and books similar in both spirit and execution. Some of these recs are books I haven’t read personally, but have often come up in discussions with other users!
1. The Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson
Status: ongoing, expected 10 books in total, 4/10 out at the moment
Book 1: The Way of Kings. The Way of Kings takes place on the world of Roshar, where war is constantly being waged on the Shattered Plains, and the Highprinces of Alethkar fight to avenge a king that died many moons ago.
2. The Craft Sequence by Max Gladstone
Status: finished, 6/6 books out.
Book 1 (in publication order): Three Parts Dead. Comprised of 6 standalone books set in the same universe, the Craft Sequence tells the tales of the city of Alt Coulumb. The city came out of the God Wars with one of its gods intact, Kos the Everburning. In return for the worship of his people, Kos provides heat and steam power to the citizens of Alt Coulumb; he is also the hub of a vast network of power relationships with other gods and god-like beings across the planet. Oh, and he has just died. If he isn’t revived in some form by the turn of the new moon, the city will descend into chaos and the finances of the globe will take a severe hit.
3. Hierarchy by James Islington
Status: ongoing, 1/3 planned books out
Book 1: The Will of the many. The Will of the Many tells the story of Vis, a young orphan who is adopted by one of the sociopolitical elites of the Hierarchy. Vis is tasked with entering a prestigious magical academy with one goal – ascend the ranks, figure out what the other major branches of the government are doing, and report back. However, that isn’t quite as easy as Vis or anyone else thought it was going to be…
4. Suneater by Christopher Ruocchio
Status: ongoing, 5/7 books out
Book 1: Empire of Silence. Hadrian is a man doomed to universal infamy after ordering the destruction of a sun to commit an unforgivable act of genocide. Told as a chronicle written by an older Hadrian, Empire of Silence details his earlier adventures and serves as an introduction to the characters and the setting.
5. Dune by Frank Herbert
Status: completed, 6/6 books out
Book 1: Dune. Set in the distant future amidst a feudal interstellar society in which various noble houses control planetary fiefs. It tells the story of young Paul Atreides, whose family accepts the stewardship of the planet Arrakis. While the planet is an inhospitable and sparsely populated desert wasteland, it is the only source of melange, or "spice", a drug that extends life and enhances mental abilities.
6. The Expanse by James S A Corey
Status: completed, 9/9 books out
Book 1: Leviathan wakes. Set hundreds of years in the future, after mankind has colonized the solar system. A hardened detective and a rogue ship's captain come together for what starts as a missing young woman and evolves into a race across the solar system to expose the greatest conspiracy in human history.
7. The First Law by Joe Abercrombie
Status: completed. 3 books in the original trilogy + 3 standalone books + 3 books in the newest trilogy
Book 1: The Blade Itself. The story follows the fortunes and misfortunes of bad people who do the right thing, good people who do the wrong thing, stupid people who do the stupid thing and, well, pretty much any combination of the above. Survival is no mean feat, and at the end of the day, dumb luck might be more of an asset than any amount of planning, skill, or noble intention.
8. Cradle by Will Wight
Status: completed, 12/12 books out
Book 1: Unsouled. Lindon is Unsouled, forbidden to learn the sacred arts of his clan. When faced with a looming fate he cannot ignore, he must rise beyond anything he's ever known...and forge his own Path
9. Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons (one PB’s favorites)
Status: completed, 4/4 books out
Book 1: Hyperion. The story weaves the interlocking tales of a diverse group of travelers sent on a pilgrimage to the Time Tombs on Hyperion. The travelers have been sent by the Church of the Final Atonement, alternately known as the Shrike Church, and the Hegemony (the government of the human star systems) to make a request of the Shrike. As they progress in their journey, each of the pilgrims tells their tale.
#red rising#golden son#morning star#pierce brown#dark age#iron gold#light bringer#what to read#book rec#book recommendation#books#stormlight archive#hyperion cantos#craft sequence#the expanse#hierarchy#the will of the many#first law#suneater#sun eater#dune#cradle series
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Darrow literally has more light scenes with Cassius than with Sevro or Virginia and Cassius isn't even there with him for 3 of the 6 books
(he so clearly wants what Darrow and Sevro have😭)
Wait there are more in the reblog-
#red rising saga#pierce brown#red rising#golden son#morning star#iron gold#dark age#light bringer#red god#darrow of lykos#cassius au bellona#they are literally married#and i cant stop crying cant stop crying
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Book 1: The Jackal is a nameless, superhuman creature, no one knows what he looks like, some think he’s not even real, his sole name evokes dread in the protagonist
Book 2: AND he’s got daddy issues!!
#idk something about this is just unbelievably funny to me#red rising#adrius au augustus#the jackal#golden son#Darrow o Lykos#the reaper#morning star#iron gold#dark age#lightbringer#red god#virginia au augustus
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One of my favourite details from the original Red Rising trilogy, is that no one ever came close to guessing or even suspecting that Darrow wasn’t a gold.
It shows the inherent flaw in their sense of superiority. Octavia had Darrow right there in front of her, with an Oracle wrapped around his arm, and even though she suspected he was a Son of Ares, she never asked if he was anything other than gold, didn’t even come close.
Adrius and Virginia are geniuses, but still, neither of them could have possibly fathomed that Darrow was a red until they had the concrete evidence of his carving right in front of them.
To this day (in canon) the only reason anyone knows Darrow is a red carved to be gold, is because the video evidence of his carving was leaked (initially from Harmony, and later from others).
No one, no matter how intelligent, practical, paranoid, cautions, clever or skeptical, ever figured out about Darrow’s carving through their own suspicion or means of investigation. They were either in on it from the beginning (Dancer, Mickey, Quicksilver, etc) or they were shown video evidence. No one figured it out themselves or “unravelled the mystery” so to speak. Because no one even knew there was a mystery.
And before people say “it was extremely unlikely, they had no reason to suspect” Yes, Darrow’s carving was incredibly difficult and expensive, but the same procedure was performed on Titus not long after, so how rare or hard could it be? We even get a dialogue from Mustang in Golden Son in which she details that different colours go to carvers all the time to have “intrinsic” parts of themselves altered, far more often than the public realizes. So the possibility should have been on Octavia’s radar, but it wasn’t, because she simply couldn’t fathom it. It was too obscure.
How could a red be the spitting image of what gold society idealizes? How could a red be so tall, strong, and beautiful? How could a red graduate top of the Institute, become a peerless scarred, a Lancer, her own grandson’s celebrity hero? Neither her nor Nero or Lorn or even Adrius were capable of even entertaining the idea. It was not a thought that was ever going to occur to them naturally.
And I really love that, from a narrative perspective, because it says so much about how the Society operates and upholds itself. It says so much about how high on their own egos golds really are. It says so much about how the colours are not as different from one another as golds would have them believe.
Cassian Andor: What? To steal from the Empire? What do you need? A uniform, some dirty hands and an Imperial tool kit. They're so proud of themselves, they don't even care. They're so fat and satisfied, they can't imagine it.
Luthen Rael: Can't imagine what?
Cassian Andor: That someone like me would ever get inside their house, walk their floors, spit in their food, take their gear.
Andor (2022-)
#andor 2022 quote#the golds simply couldn’t fathom a red walking right into their house without their knowledge#star wars quotes#red rising#red rising series#golden son#morning star#iron gold#dark age#light bringer#red god#darrow of lykos#Octavia au Lune#Nero au Augustus#adrius au augustus#virginia au augustus#lord au arcos
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#red rising#red rising saga#darrow of lykos#dark age#iron gold#red rising trilogy#darrow au andromedus#iron gold trilogy#pierce brown#light bringer
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Pax the Hunter
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Thank you for the prompt @darrowsrising ! More to come 😉 ♥️
#red rising#iron gold#pierce brown#light bringer#darrow of lykos#sevro au barca#darrow au andromedus#howlers#sons of ares#myart
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Darrow's commitment to relating everything back to Cassius is astounding. Bro this ain't about him 😭😭😭
#dassius#darrow au andromedus#darrow of lykos#cassius au bellona#red rising series#red rising saga#red rising trilogy#red rising#iron gold#rereading iron gold
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Just when I thought that I'm skewed to love books that are written by people who look like this:
but then THIS MAN shows up
it's still another white man, but i'll settle
#andy weir#rick riordan#pierce brown#the martian#project hail mary#pjo#riordanverse#red rising#iron gold#all hail#my cursed trinity
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Ever since Iron Gold, there's been all this discussion in the books and even more so in the fandom about Lyria's anger. Is it justified? Is it whiny? Is it reasonable? Is it ungrateful? Is it helpful or harmful? So, in Light Bringer, Cassius's first impression of Lyria was such a breath of fresh air for me. He saw her anger right away and was just like, "Sweet! She's House Mars, like us! Of course, we're keeping her!"
#red rising#iron gold#light bringer#light bringer spoilers#lyria of lagalos#cassius au bellona#opinion and analysis
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I don’t think I ever did it before, so here are @merwild ‘s red rising bookmarks.
#red rising#golden son#morning star#pierce brown#dark age#iron gold#light bringer#darrow of lykos#sevro au barca#virginia au augustus#red rising saga#cassius au bellona#Ragnar volarus#red rising fanart
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to think darrow killed orion to save one billion civilians, commanded his broken army to share their minimal supplies with civilians and alexander was tortured for weeks so he could save one hundred thousand civilians only for those civilians to turn on them at the first opportunity and undo all the progress made by fifteen years of war
#pierce brown#red rising#golden son#morning star#iron gold#dark age#light bringer#red god#red rising saga#darrow au andromedus#darrow of lykos
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gun to my head, had you asked me who i thought sevro would grow up to be while i was still reading the first red rising book, not in a million years would i have guessed girl dad married to an amazonian queen.
#sevro au barca#victra au julii#sevro x victra#red rising#golden son#morning star#iron gold#dark age#light bringer#red god#pierce brown
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CONFESS!
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