Iron Gold

"In Pierce Brown’s Red Rising universe, the rebellion begun by slaves three books ago has nearly been won. But rather than simply rolling on into more pew-pew laser gun battles between murderous teenagers turned into gods and legends, Brown does something daring in his fourth book. He makes it largely about forgotten minor characters in his war – refugees, old soldiers, the enemy. The result is surprisingly mature science fiction within the frame of blazing space opera so dramatic it borders on Shakespearean and yet still full of some of the most cinematically brilliant pulp sci-fi you’ll ever read."