Red Rising · Book 3

Morning Star

by Pierce Brown

Published
9 February 2016
Pages
672
ISBN-13
9781501904417
Type
novel

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Cover of Morning Star

About this book

Morning Star closes out the original Red Rising trilogy in 2016 at 672 pages, following Golden Son to complete Darrow's arc as a satisfying, standalone three-act story before the saga jumps forward in time for its second trilogy.

Its place in Red Rising

Morning Star is book 3 in the Red Rising series. It follows Golden Son. It is followed by Iron Gold. See the full Red Rising reading order.

Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in a brutally stratified solar-system society, born to mine helium-3 beneath Mars so that the ruling Golds can terraform the surface his people are told doesn't exist yet. When his wife is executed for a minor act of rebellion, Darrow is recruited by an underground resistance, surgically and genetically transformed to pass as a Gold, and sent to infiltrate the ruling class from within its most brutal proving ground: a war-games academy where students kill each other…

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