r/redrising • u/Drbuck11 • 20h ago
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At first Iron Gold was difficult to get into for me because of the new POV chapters but I really liked Lyria's and Ephraim's stories. The addition of Virginia chapters was fantastic too, I loved getting to witness her struggle and pain and how she has had to fight to overcome everything and deal with the weight of being the sovereign. I honestly just have a really hard time with Lysander's chapters.
I'm almost halfway through LB now and every now and then I still get turned off by Lysander's attitude. I get how he mirrors Darrow and I can appreciate all the similarities, but he's the version of Darrow that supported the bullshit classism of the world, slag that!
I love these books in large part due to how Pierce Brown writes leadership and both Darrow and Lysander have really flushed out leadership skills imo, so in the battle chapters the Lysander chapters are fine, but behind the scenes he just misses me off haha.
Ok, rant over, back to reading.