Sophomore Elliott Dale is currently reading “Dark Age” by Pierce Brown. “Dark Age” is the fifth book in the “Red Rising” series. It is a science-fiction dystopian novel, similar to that of “The Hunger Games.”
“I was looking through recommendations in the sci-fi series, and I came upon this book,” Dale said. “There’s tons of stories within the book and tons of things to be attached to. It’s not just a single story.”
Author Pierce Brown wrote the first book, “Red Rising,” in two months and got it published almost immediately in 2014. Over the following years, he published six books in the series, “Golden Son,” “Morning Star,” “Iron Gold,’, “Dark Age,” and “Light Bringer.”
“It sounds like a simple book, but it’s one of the greatest books I’ve ever read,” Dale said.
In the series, the main character, Darrow, lives on Mars in a dystopian future, where class is determined by color, with Red being the lowest, and Gold being the highest.
In “Dark Age” Darrow successfully leads a revolution against the laws of the color-coded structure, but becomes outlawed by the Republic he created. He then is forced to wage a war against the Republic in hopes of salvaging the dream of equality.
“I’d recommend it to anyone who likes Roman or Greek history, [because] it references it a lot, as well as history just in general,” Dale said. “It’s a total futuristic civilization.”
Check out “Dark Age,” along with all other books in the “Red Rising” series, if you like action-packed science-fiction novels.