Iron Gold

De: Pierce Brown

Narrado por: Tim Gerard Reynolds, John Curless, Julian Elfer, Aedin Moloney

Honor and betrayal fuel a caste-shattering revolution in the action-packed new novel from the number one New York Times best-selling author of the Red Rising Trilogy.

Ten years after the events of Morning Star, Darrow and the Rising are battling the remaining Gold loyalist forces and are closer than ever to abolishing the color-coded caste system of Society for good. But new foes will emerge from the shadows to threaten the imperfect victory Darrow and his friends have earned. Pierce Brown expands the size and scope of his impressive Red Rising universe with new characters, enemies, and conflicts among the stars.

©2017 Pierce Brown (P)2017 Recorded Books

Why change a good thing?

What did you like best about this story?
Story is great, Pierce Brown has created a world that I don't want to leave.

How could the performance have been better?
Why, why, why were other actors added. Tim Gerard Reynolds was perfect in the first 3 books, no others were needed. The beginning of the book was perfect, it felt like an old friend came home and you were catching up and then the voice changed happened and it was oh so very jarring. Not happy about this at all.

Any additional comments?
I may just read the future books vs. listening to them via Audible if they continue with the myriad set of voices.

3/4 of greatness

I have listened to many audiobooks. I have enjoyed listening to the narrators in all of the books with some being better than others but none taking anything away from the story... until now

TGR is perfect narrating Darrow again

John Curless does a great job as the beaten down Ephraim

Julian Elfer is a spot on cast for Lysander.. exactly as I would have imagined him 10 years into the future

and then we have Aedin Moloney... wow... I hate to be mean towards someone elses work but I absolutely hated her narration. Her annoying accent and overly emotional drawl made me absolutely hate Lyria as a character. I would literally get upset every time I heard her begin with a "Chaahhhpterr 32, Leeeyyyriahhhhhh, theeee blood feuuuuuuuud".

I almost went and purchased to book so I could fast forward her parts and just read them. Her horrible exaggeration of male characters, her awful whining and ridiculously annoying emotional cadence that she inflected into literally every sentence almost ruined the book for me

5 stars for everything minus Lyria; Lyria whose narration by Aedin Moloney is a worse crime against Darrow than when he watched Eo hang

Brown has been reading too much GRR Martin

This book is good, not great. The issue is it’s very bloated with tons of new and old characters. It’s also got a ton of sub-plots that take far too long to develop. But once they do, wow is it good.

The characters we know and love are there, in all their glory. But because of the bloat in the book, they never really take off like in the previous books. There are far too many interludes with new minor characters that develop at a snails pace.

The narrators do a great job of bringing the story to life. Honestly, they inject life into this massive bloat.

Now I can’t wait for another!

Geez that was one hell of a ride! At first I didn’t think I was going to like hearing the story from 4 different points of view but wound up loving it. I sure do hope there will be more and more and more. Pierce Brown is a hell of a writer! This whole series reminds me of the TV show Breaking Bad, the story is just as good, and once you start listening you do not want to stop. Then when it’s done you’re kinda depressed cuz you don’t want it to end.

Feel like I just read book 3.5 not 4

Well I agree with the too many cooks assessment, the narrators are not where my beef is.

My problem is I just finished this book and am now just hooked. I feel like I sat through twenty two hours of filler for no other reason other than Pierce Brown is one of my favorite authors.

While Lyria, Lysander, and Ephraim are interesting enough, Things only started picking up seventy five percent of the way through the book. Before that it feels like we are just treading over the same ground that was covered in the first trilogy.

It's hard to care about most of Lyria's arc since her backstory is much akin to Darrow's. I only cared once she became entangled in the overall plot which again, was three quarters into the book.

Lysander is interesting but he just reads like a bystander until the last moments where it feels he will start to be important.

Ephraim is a delightful train wreck but again, only feels important once he becomes entangled with characters we already care about from the last three books.

Darrow is a mopey loser this book who makes somewhat unbelievable decisions until the end where I'm now hooked. Also, no one calls him on his shit except Sevro! It was infuriating.

Is it a bad book? By all means no. it flows and is well written. All I'm saying is, as a big fan on the original trilogy, this book is underwhelming.