Red Rising Saga fans were certainly surprised last year when author Pierce Brown announced that the long-awaited final book in the series would be split into two novels, and other series have certainly proved that doing so hasn’t always worked for the story as a whole. Thankfully Light Bringer doesn’t fall into that category; in fact, I believe that this Red Rising installment is Brown’s best yet.
*This Light Bringer review is spoiler-free.*
I was provided a free ARC of Light Bringer. The opinions are my own.
Light Bringer doesn’t read like a disjointed story that was split off from the whole, nor does it feel like a filler novel that exists to get us from the beautiful – but many-tentacled – menace* that was Dark Age to the grand finale that Red God is sure to be.
(*I use this word with all of the love in my heart. Or what’s left of my heart after Dark Age broke it over…and over…and over…again.)
On the contrary, while Light Bringer is of course an intrinsic part of the whole [RR Saga], it also feels almost perfectly, almost entirely its own.
In conclusion, if there’s one important spoiler-free thing that I can say about Light Bringer, it’s that readers should go into it expecting the unexpected. In fact, as it’s the unexpected plot points that tend to shine the brightest in this novel, the most disappointing part about reading Red Rising Saga book 6 was that it ended.
(…And left me wanting book 7, oh, yesterday.)
Tara Lynne is an author, event planner, and public speaker who enjoys traveling, running half marathons, taking martial arts classes, spending time with their pets, enjoying a vodka soda (with lemon!)/hazy IPA/glass of Cab/some good coffee…and of course reading!
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