

Because THAT author deserves his coveted title.

THAT is the kind of author that you want to give you money to.

And people, when an author does that for their readers - when he goes all out to deliver a knockout punch every single time - THAT is the kind of author that you want to pay attention to. From what I can tell, Pierce Brown is not only asking himself “What is the next story in this world that I could tell?” when he sits down to write the next book, but “What is the most brilliant next story in this world that I could tell?”. Brown should choose to begin the next book in his series after ten years of hard-fought war later. Thus, it was no surprise to me to learn that after writing three solid books about Darrow’s rise to power, that Mr. And that single fact made not only that book, but the entire series, rise up above so many of those others and give a mighty shout that it would be heard. If any other author had written it, that book just might have been about Battle School instead of starting at the end of those two vicious years of Darrow’s training. RED RISING had finished in such a way that, given the thousands of other books I’d read, I fully expected GOLDEN SON to be about Battle School. I remember picking up GOLDEN SON for the first time and being surprised at where the author started the story.
