Read Rising: A Red Rising Book Club Podcast
Sep 15, 2026 · 38 min · 6 segments
This episode sets up the start of *Iron Gold* and immediately reframes the series through multiple perspectives. The group talks through the shift from Darrow-centered storytelling to a wider, messier…
Um, we've talked about how Pierce has a different writing style on this book and we see it a little bit in the prologue, like Craig is saying, but here with Lyria's chapter, we see the first, like really in your face, different writing because it's a fully different POV.
And I, this is one of my favorite quotes in the entire series.
It's how she opens.
And what she says is sky.
That's what my dog would call the roof of stone and metal that stretched over our home in the mine of Lagalos.
It's what we used to call it.
Going back generations of our clan to the first pioneers.
The sky be crumbling.
The sky needs reinforcing.
It stretched over us like a great shield, keeping us safe from the fabled Martian storms raging outside.
They were dances in the sky.
Songs wishing it luck and blessings.
I even knew.
Two Lasses named for it.
But the sky wasn't a shield.
It was a lid.
A cage.
And I think that is a perfect opening to the character arc of Lyria.
And it is a perfect juxtaposition to the Selene Manor.
It is? Yeah.
It feels like a call back to Darrow, right? And his earlier days.
It's like, this is sort of where you came from.
And now he's in that manner.
And she's like over here with her family.
Darrow
Um, we've talked about how Pierce has a different writing style on this book and we see it a little bit in the prologue, like Craig is saying, but here with Lyria's chapter, we see the first, like really in your face, different writing because it's a fully different POV.
And I, this is one of my favorite quotes in the entire series.
It's how she opens.
And what she says is sky.
That's what my dog would call the roof of stone and metal that stretched over our home in the mine of Lagalos.
It's what we used to call it.
Going back generations of our clan to the first pioneers.
The sky be crumbling.
The sky needs reinforcing.
It stretched over us like a great shield, keeping us safe from the fabled Martian storms raging outside.
They were dances in the sky.
Songs wishing it luck and blessings.
I even knew.
Two Lasses named for it.
But the sky wasn't a shield.
It was a lid.
A cage.
And I think that is a perfect opening to the character arc of Lyria.
And it is a perfect juxtaposition to the Selene Manor.
It is? Yeah.
It feels like a call back to Darrow, right? And his earlier days.
It's like, this is sort of where you came from.
And now he's in that manner.
And she's like over here with her family.
Darrow
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