Read Rising: A Red Rising Book Club Podcast

We cover Ephraim's heist, Lysander's tense prison scenes, and Lyria's increasingly dangerous orbit around the core players. The episode focuses on betrayal, shifting loyalties, and how much damage people can do while insisting they're still the good guys.Buckle up for the suck, buttercup.

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 focus on how much of this section is setup and how much of it is quietly doing heavy lifting for the rest of the book. What say you?

This episode covers the first part of Iron Gold and tracks three major threads: Darrow’s escalating break with the Republic, Lyria’s devastating loss and decision to leave, and Lysander’s capture on the Rim. It also introduces Ephraim’s uneasy new assignment and opens up a larger conversation about loyalty, power, and who gets used as a weapon.

Iron Gold, Chapters 10 to 15! Senate blowup, Lyria’s devastation, Ephraim’s grief, and Lysander’s choicesThis discussion covers four POVs in Iron Gold chapters 10 to 15: Darrow, Lyria, Ephraim, and Lysander. The group focuses on the clash between war and governance, the human cost of the Red Hand attacks, grief and self-destruction in Ephraim’s arc, and what Lysander’s decisions reveal about loyalty, power, and conscience.

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 republic, while also introducing Lyria, Ephraim, and Lysander as major new lenses on the world. A lot of the discussion centers on what war has cost the low colors, whether Darrow is still right to push forward, and how the new structure of the book mirrors the political structure of the Republic itself.