Golden Son by Pierce BrownMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
The sequel to Red Rising subtracts a lot of the Ender's Game and Gladiator elements, but retains many of the elements of The Hunger Games (imminent revolution across this pseudo-Roman future society) and Game of Thrones (families at war, either winning or dying with no middle ground) that made the first one so good. And, just like its predecessor, it keeps up the war themes in such ways that it manages to feel scarily more relevant in this post-American world, a war of the rich going at each other and still using all the lower classes for their own ends like nothing else matters.
Really, truly, it's hard as hell to believe Brown wrote this all at such a relatively tender age, and yet, he did. Proves that he's truly a better human than the rest of us.
Oh, and Sevro. In this book, we are all Sevro. And Darrow too, but Sevro as well. No bloodydamn kidding.
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