Iron Gold was definitely a slog the first time I read it. It's much better on a re-read after reading Dark Age. The table setting really is incredible. Makes both books better.
Well shit, the plan was to read last metal next but I got 2 more books of this hmmm. The Blackfish what do you recommend
you might want to pause until Book 6 comes out towards the summer so everything is fresh in your mind before you read it and the end of the first trilogy is a great stopping point
I would assume they’ll all be on audible. He’s not one to limit access to his works. If something is hard to get he’ll put it up free on his website.
Starting a re-read in preparation of Lightbringer. Brown dropped an IG video that said it's 750 pages and a link to someone leading a read along discussion that's hosting on discord, if anyone is interested.
I re-read the first 3 books over the last few weeks and it is still simply fantastic i'm pausing for books 4 and 5 until it's closer to the launch of LightBringer
Ive read the first trilogy so many times I feel like I dont need to. Im also waiting to re-read books 4 and 5 until we're closer to Lightbringer.
I think it was the constant roller coaster of everything is going terribly we fixed it, things are worse than ever then the pandemic hit and I just couldn’t take the anxiety anymore.
I listened to some of this and...am not a fan. I'd love if this were a prelude to a show but the voices all feel very off to me. I assume I should have because of the red hair and use of bloodydamn but I never pegged the Reds as Irish descendants.
I dont really like audiobooks. Sometimes I'll listen to a nonfic book. Because Im a huge nerd, I did listen to a Star Wars audio drama because it was the only version of the story. The multiple voices makes 'reading comprehension' so much harder for me. Buuuut - I think the Irish influence on the Reds was pretty obvious. Lots of Irish slang. Irish style songs ect. Oh and his name is Darrow O'Lykos
Like I said, I suppose it's a me thing. I rarely try and sort out the accent of book characters unless their speech style or setting makes it abundantly clear. In this case, there are certainly clues from speech but because the setting is so removed from Earth, it just never really occurred to me. That said, we do get a discussion in book 2(I think) about how the original golds, not the version we see in the books but the ones who initially left Earth and wore gold uniforms, were largely British. And we know how the Brits feel about enslaving Irish.
Tim Gerard Reynolds is one of the best audiobook narrators out there. I was bummed when they added new narrators for the newer book POVs. Some have been okay, but none better than TGR imo.
Just finished book 3 last night. I'd forgotten the ending sequence but once it started to play out, I remembered, and couldn't put the book down even though it was like 12:30. Will probably wait a couple weeks to start 4.
Likely won’t get a chance to re-read the series before the next one comes out and it has been a little while. If anybody runs across a good synopsis of where the main characters and plot points are at before it comes out please post it here.
Halfway through re-reading Iron Gold. I’m really enjoying it. He really does set up breadcrumbs for Dark Age that you’d skip right over on a first read.
I would Re-read the bombing of the Ganymede docks in Morning Star. Or at least find a wiki or something to refamiliarize how it went down. That’s a huge thread in Iron Gold.
Update - After re-reading Iron Gold, I decided to reread the first trilogy before Dark Age. I think the first couple times reading the series, you get so caught up in the pace, you just churn through it. Missing a lot of subtle things Brown puts in there. Taking my time to read a bit slower than normal. Im enjoying it so much. Knowing what to look for plays into that I guess.
I really liked the first trilogy. I'm on a second attempt to read Iron Gold and I'm fizzling out again. Is it, and the subsequent books, worth it?
My personal fav is Golden Son...just an amazing piece of writing from beginning to end DarkAge was great too but it dragged for me in some of the parts
He's a really fantastic writer. Making a villain hateable is easy...making a villain understood and believable - even in the face of such fantastical setting and story - is what makes great stand out from best.
I think it's incredibly telling that he's capable of making you attach to a character in a book or two in such a way you're sad/mad/whatever when they die.
I’ll say what lots haven’t about book 4: Lyria and Ephraim are the weak spots of the book early on. Lyria doesn’t really improve as a character until we’ll into book 5. Ephraim’s story picks up in the last 1/3 of book 4. The last 1/3 of Iron Gold reads as feverishly as almost any of the predecessors.
I feel like everyone hates Lyria. I never understood why. I think she’s very well written and her actions are logical.
Agreed. But she’s the first “weak” character we’re expected to be interested in. Without getting into spoilery stuff, you don’t see that change until then end of IG and into DA. Not knowing her later story makes the first read of her parts a little more boring that the Lysander/Darrow parts. You could actually say the same about Lysander on first read.
I also think 4 being the first one where you read things from not Darrow’s POV is tough. It’s the same argument Marvel fans are making with so much content: they don’t see how a lot of things play into the bigger picture…but most of that is resolved by the end of IG
Just finished reread of IG. I’d forgotten how entertaining Spoiler Ephraim’s interactions with Pax and Electra are
Is everyone just starting back at Iron Gold for re-read before the new book? Was torn on a re-read but think I have to