Light Bringer: the Sunday Times bestseller (Red Rising Series)

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Some of the very best moments were intimate, emotional scenes between characters with deeply meaningful relationships. So begins Darrow’s long voyage home, an interplanetary adventure where old friends will reunite, new alliances will be forged, and rivals will clash on the battlefield. But like i mentioned above i drove myself insane with worry the whole way through because i knew peace can never last in his works. also super proud of darrow and his development - sometimes i miss book 1 darrow, but his maturity and resolve, and the way he's grown throughout the series is phenomenal.

However, once I reached 30% mark, the tempo of the story sped up rapidly and it was unable to put it down. While I don’t think this book is quite as good overall as Dark Age is, I still think it’s absolutely fantastic, and at worst the 3rd best book in the series (I personally have it tied for second with Morning Star).Was the perfect combination of so many of my fav aspects of the series but also provided so many amazing scenes I was yearning for in the first 5 books. He is the character through which you see about one third of this story and whose presence keeps the wheels of this story turning. Because Eo’s dream is still alive—and after the dark age will come a new age: of light, of victory, of hope. Brown went all out on the gore, darkness, violence, and bleakness of the circumstances and threats Darrow and his friends faced to mercilessly showcase the darkness and cruelty of war and violence. This might be the best Red Rising book so far, but either way, it was the best book in the second series by far.

That’s how Earth and its multitude of nations strangled itself… The purpose of war must be to find the road back to peace. That’s the sound of blades clashing announcing the arrival of Light Bringer as the biggest contender for the best book of 2023. Brown’s prose has consistently gotten better from book to book, and I now consider him to be one of the masters of writing action scenes that still have gravitas and depth that goes beyond the blow-by-blow action.The Reaper is a legend, more myth than man: the savior of worlds, the leader of the Rising, the breaker of chains. In this book, all the pieces started coming together and you can almost see the light at the end of the tunnel. All of the antagonists in this book are terrifying/hateable in different ways, while still having deep and interesting motivations. Light Bringer has its grim moments, but it is not the despair filled, no getting off train ride on the way to hell that Dark Age was. I really liked Lyria and Cassius' friendship in this because they both had such a good arc, and in contrast if Lysander meets any end but being burned alive like the Ash Lord, I will be disappointed.

With more responsibilities and the march of time, their friendships aren’t as relatively simple as they were before in the first trilogy when they had fewer designated main missions and priorities.

I appreciate TGR, and it hurts me to leave a negative review, but the quality of this production is so far removed from what I came to expect from this series. It is meant to be used as a reference for those who have already read the book and need the information or a refresher on the storyline.