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

Too many narrators Mr. Brown

What made the experience of listening to Iron Gold the most enjoyable?

Tim Gerald Reynolds is a master narrator. Reynolds has already developed the voices for these characters in 3 other books. Adding the other narrators takes away from TGR performance and the Red Rising experience. It does not flow effortlessly like the other books and gets confusing. Missed the mark as far as the audible version is concerned.

Meh

I absolutely loved the first three books but this was a little lackluster for me. It introduced three new point of view characters with three different narrators, which in concept was a good way to expand the scope of the story but wasn’t executed very well. I honestly didn’t care enough about the new characters for their storylines to hold my attention, save for one. Even Darrow’s chapters were so far removed from the man he was that I didn’t enjoy them. The writing is still beautiful and the world building is still there, but this felt more like the first in a new series in a new time and place than a continuation of the previous. Even then, not much progress was made and it just felt like it was setting up future novels. That is fine for a first book, but not a fourth. I give it a meh and an ehhh.

Love Red Rising... but Julian Elfer?

[Semi-Spoilers]
Pierce Brown is writing one hell of a series and I’m enjoying every minute. I have also listened to TGR on several other of his narrations and absolutely love his performance.

The only scar on this performance is the narrator who voiced Lysander, . He’s got a great voice but... there’s no emotion... He’s reading about the death of one of the major characters of this series and it’s like I’m listening to a BBC news anchor drawl on about the London Stock Exchange numbers!

TGR is amazing, Aedin Moloney stirred so much emotion, John Curless really made me feel Ephraim’s grittiness, but PLEASE replace Julian Elfer from the series (assuming there’s no contract for all 3 books I suppose).

Thanks for a great story.

Great book, one narrator almost ruined.

Excellent next chapter in the series, liked it as much as any of the others. I liked how the threads of last three were retained with lots of new characters introduced, and lots of future conflicts set up.

One smallish complaint. The Actress who narrated Lyria showed a range of a emotion in her reading. On a scale of 1 to 10 that range was somewhere between 9.8 and 10 the entire time. She even read the chapter titles with over the top emotion. Honestly it made me dread Lyria chapters by the end of the book.

Still, five stars for this book.

Story decently good but narration very mixed

I enjoyed the story though it didn't seem quite up to the high standards set by the Red Rising. Where the Red Rising was by its format much tighter in scope and focus, the multiple plotlines here made this story a bit harder to keep track of. The characters were also harder to become fond of when you're jumping in between.

In particular I had a hard time with the narrators of Lyria and Lysander. Near the beginning of the book, Lyria's hard circumstances caused the narrator to similarly sound strained and teary. But the constant barrage of wailing whenever her character came up sounded just grating especially when there was almost no time before then to get us to like the character first. Later on however this got much better. On the opposite side of the spectrum, Lysander's narrator was mostly emotionalless and seemed to join words together oddly or not have pauses where required to make a sentence function. Darrow's and Ephraim's narrators were excellent throughout.

Overall I did enjoy this book. I really liked how different the stories were for each character and how different their tones were. Now that there has been some setting up for the characters, I look forward to the sequels. I just hope the narration benefits from the experience from this book.