Iron Gold, some thoughts (and spoilers):
Lysander is *such* a Gold and everything he says should be read from that perspective.
Yes the Raa are honourable and austere and traditional etc etc but theyâre still maintaining their own superiority at the cost of everyone else; theyâre still upholding a caste system that nobody else agreed to and which significantly benefits them.
I like how at the end Romulus is basically like, you know what, Iâm too old for this shit.
And then he fully enables lysander and co, but fucks off into oblivion to take no responsibility for any of his actions.
Cassius - I donât believe anyone who dies off-screen. Heâs dead. No, you canât see him. Because reasons. Weâve put him in a box marked âLeverageâ.
Also Lysanderâs viewpoint made me feel compassion towards Cassius and I had to keep reminding myself what a dick he was.
Darrow never learns. I like that everyone has to suffer consequences in this book, and I like that Brownâs main characters arenât exempt from this. I have always liked that Darrow is a flawed character. Heâs very good at failing.
Darrow, your clever plan is bullshit. How you managed to convince anyone to go along with your dumb ass is a miracle.
I canât believe you thought releasing that crazy SoB was a good idea. And then you gave him an army. And a planet. And then you pissed him off at the last. FFS Darrow.
Darrow spends half of this book thinking about how much he loves his son and would do anything for him, and at every opportunity he chooses the choice that would take him away from the boy. Youâre a coward and a bad father and Mustang needs to slap some sense into you.
I keep waiting for Darrow to begin battles by yelling âLEEEEEROY JENNNNNNKINSâ.
Heâs such a man. Heâs so full of unjustified self-confidence and heâs convinced that heâs cleverer than everyone else in the room and heâs always right, and heâs become such a Gold.
Every time heâs like âpeople are keeping me from my son!!1!â and sevroâs like, âhey wanna see your son?â and Darrow instantly finds an excuse.
Good job showing the aftermath of a war. I loved how Brown used Lyria (I always read it as Lyrium and then red lyrium, and then yeahâŠ) to show that being freed from slavery doesnât automatically give you a good life. It was a nice look into a refugeeâs life which is especially important right now.
I felt so bad for her. All those âI donât deserve friendsâ feelings. Itâs too early for feelings.
She stayed to help. She didnât know how and she wasnât sure she wanted to, but she stayed.
That ending though. Oh Victra.
Stop being mean to Volga!
Consequences for everyone!
Itâs basically a big set-up book - I didnât find that there was a lot of pay off. The ash lord reveal seemed extremely obvious from the minute Darrow proposed his plan, but I was hoping that Darrow would at least learn some good things from it, but he seems determined to run from every lesson possible.
The syndicate seemed kinda weak to me. Introducing some unknown bad guy just to set up a heist/betrayal and then not actually develop their reputation in the eyes of any character but Ephraim seems quite cheap. If theyâre such a big threat, why is literally no one else talking about them?
Itâs not really Chekhovâs gun if you donât set up the gun in Act 1. Like who could the madman Darrow intends to release possibly be? Oh wait, itâs this dude weâve literally never heard of.
I just really like the worldbuilding and the tech.
One day we will meet a Yellow with a personality/any character whatsoever and it will be amazing.
I canât wait for Hollywood to ruin this because it misses the allegory completely (cough cough hunger games was a critique of the very industry that then made millions off it). Also imagine galaxies populated by ALL THE WHITE PEOPLE.
Tl;dr not my favourite of his books by a long shot. Nice to catch up with the characters and immerse myself in the world - but too much set up, not enough pay-off. Spent a lot of time with characters I wasnât really interested in and felt that some of the reveals were poorly executed.
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