Read Rising: A Red Rising Book Club Podcast
Oct 6, 2026 · 57 min · 9 segments
Pierce Brown! Iron Gold! These chapters split between political fallout, a dangerous prison break, and three very different POVs trying to survive a society in collapse. Nick, Sam, Liz, and Craig…
This, this section of, of Iron Gold starts a pattern that Pierce does that I despise, and it's...
You get several...
You have something big that happens in the previous section, and then you don't get that POV for a long time.
[laughs] Um, so we start out with Lysander, uh, and Lysander and Cassius have just been captured by the Ras, and they are being transported back to Io.
So we are basically getting a political introduction to all of the important Ras and finding out what the situation is in the outer rim.
We get this really, uh, in your face threat from Diomedes, which is really cool, and we, we find out that there is a lot of drama between Romulus and Dido, uh, who is his wife.
Um, basically, there's potentially treason going on here.
We have a...
We can have another vote on that.
Um, I think-
It's like a double treason.
Yeah, it's like treason-
Yeah
... within treason.
We'll talk about that.
And we're just finding out that, uh, our two, uh, stranded people here are getting into a giant shit storm.
[laughs]
Gotcha.
Yeah.
Lyria doesn't do anything, and I will absolutely give you that, Craig.
Um, we find out she's hanging out with, uh, Sophocles.
Uh, we get a very long description of a flower that is dangerous.
Um, and then she basically takes a field trip to Hyperion for a day and gets into trouble and gets saved by this mysterious man named Philippe, who looks oddly familiar to us.
I mean, I-
This, this section of, of Iron Gold starts a pattern that Pierce does that I despise, and it's...
You get several...
You have something big that happens in the previous section, and then you don't get that POV for a long time.
[laughs] Um, so we start out with Lysander, uh, and Lysander and Cassius have just been captured by the Ras, and they are being transported back to Io.
So we are basically getting a political introduction to all of the important Ras and finding out what the situation is in the outer rim.
We get this really, uh, in your face threat from Diomedes, which is really cool, and we, we find out that there is a lot of drama between Romulus and Dido, uh, who is his wife.
Um, basically, there's potentially treason going on here.
We have a...
We can have another vote on that.
Um, I think-
It's like a double treason.
Yeah, it's like treason-
Yeah
... within treason.
We'll talk about that.
And we're just finding out that, uh, our two, uh, stranded people here are getting into a giant shit storm.
[laughs]
Gotcha.
Yeah.
Lyria doesn't do anything, and I will absolutely give you that, Craig.
Um, we find out she's hanging out with, uh, Sophocles.
Uh, we get a very long description of a flower that is dangerous.
Um, and then she basically takes a field trip to Hyperion for a day and gets into trouble and gets saved by this mysterious man named Philippe, who looks oddly familiar to us.
I mean, I-
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