Finished April 17, so it's been a minute and the details are fuzzy at this point.
As a reminder, Darrow was born a Red in a sci-fi world with a strict class based society. Reds are at the bottom of the heap; Golds are at the top. So, in book 1, Red Rising, Darrow gets a genetic make-over and is turned into a Gold by a rebel group. The idea is that he work his way to the top of Gold society and then use his influence to dismantle it. It was always going to come apart. Eventually someone was going to figure out that Darrow was not who he said he was and that's the main thrust of Morning Star.
It wasn't a bad book. In many ways, it was an improvement over the first two. However, I just got so tired of watching Darrow make choices that were predictably bad and horrible consequences always followed. Brown built this expectation that horrible things were going to happen to all my favorite characters and Darrow and it got a little tedious. Strangely, I get why my students are so fond of the books. For me though, I think I'm putting the series down.
I hope the vague whispers of a show pan out. It could make for some really good TV.
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