Morning Star
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Red Rising thrilled readers and announced the presence of a talented new author. Golden Son changed the game and took the story of Darrow to the next level. Now comes the exhilarating next chapter in the Red Rising Saga: Morning Star.
ITW THRILLER AWARD FINALIST • “[Brown’s] achievement is in creating an uncomfortably familiar world of flaw, fear, and promise.”—Entertainment Weekly
Darrow would have lived in peace, but his enemies brought him war. The Gold overlords demanded his obedience, hanged his wife, and enslaved his people. But Darrow is determined to fight back. Risking everything to transform himself and breach Gold society, Darrow has battled to survive the cutthroat rivalries that breed Society’s mightiest warriors, climbed the ranks, and waited patiently to unleash the revolution that will tear the hierarchy apart from within.
Finally, the time has come.
But devotion to honor and hunger for vengeance run deep on both sides. Darrow and his comrades-in-arms face powerful enemies without scruple or mercy. Among them are some Darrow once considered friends. To win, Darrow will need to inspire those shackled in darkness to break their chains, unmake the world their cruel masters have built, and claim a destiny too long denied—and too glorious to surrender.
Praise for Morning Star
“There is no one writing today who does shameless, Michael Bay–style action set pieces the way Brown does. The battle scenes are kinetic, bloody, breathless, crazy. Everything is on fire all the time.”—NPR
“Morning Star is this trilogy’s Return of the Jedi. . . . The impactful battles that make up most of Morning Star are damn near operatic. . . . It absolutely satisfies.”—Tordotcom
“Excellent . . . Brown’s vivid, first-person prose puts the reader right at the forefront of impassioned speeches, broken families, and engaging battle scenes . . . as this interstellar civil war comes to a most satisfying conclusion.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“A page-turning epic filled with twists and turns . . . The conclusion to Brown’s saga is simply stellar.”—Booklist (starred review)
Don’t miss any of Pierce Brown’s Red Rising Saga:
RED RISING • GOLDEN SON • MORNING STAR • IRON GOLD • DARK AGE • LIGHT BRINGER
- Pages
- 518
- First published
- February 9, 2016
- Language
- English
- Edition
- Ebook
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Reviews
Finished February 17, 2025
Started January 19, 2025 · Finished January 26, 2025
Bloodydamn... this was really fucking good. What a momentous way to end the first part of this series. I laughed, I audibly screamed and threatened to throw my ereader... so many emotions, and ups with downs... but I powered through and really glad I did. These characters and their motivations have really grown on me through this and I just know I will think of this story and these MCs often. Will most def be reading the rest of this series as well. 🌶️ 0/5 - No spice, just dreams. Romance is there, in friendship, in the bonds that are forged in the dark, and in the past that will never quite heal, but makes you stronger for it. Break the chains. "Everything is cracked, everything is stained except the fragile moments that hang crystalline in time and make like worth living."
Started April 13, 2026 · Finished April 19, 2026
Finished December 29, 2024
Still kinda salty about chapter 60
Started March 5, 2024 · Finished March 5, 2024
Started August 20, 2023 · Finished August 23, 2023
Finished February 11, 2024


