Dark Age

By: Pierce Brown

Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds, John Curless, Moira Quirk, James Langton, Rendah Heywood

For a decade, Darrow led a revolution against the corrupt color-coded Society. Now, outlawed by the very Republic he founded, he wages a rogue war on Mercury in hopes that he can still salvage the dream of Eo. But as he leaves death and destruction in his wake, is he still the hero who broke the chains? Or will another legend rise to take his place?

Lysander au Lune, the heir in exile, has returned to the Core. Determined to bring peace back to mankind at the edge of his sword, he must overcome or unite the treacherous Gold families of the Core and face down Darrow over the skies of war-torn Mercury.

But theirs are not the only fates hanging in the balance.

On Luna, Mustang, Sovereign of the Republic, campaigns to unite the Republic behind her husband. Beset by political and criminal enemies, can she outwit her opponents in time to save him?

Once a Red refugee, young Lyria now stands accused of treason, and her only hope is a desperate escape with unlikely new allies.

Abducted by a new threat to the Republic, Pax and Electra, the children of Darrow and Sevro, must trust in Ephraim, a thief, for their salvation - and Ephraim must look to them for his chance at redemption.

As alliances shift, break, and re-form - and power is seized, lost, and reclaimed - every player is at risk in a game of conquest that could turn the Rising into a new Dark Age.

©2019 Pierce Brown (P)2019 Recorded Books

Sound volume

I sure wish the sound engineers had put all the narrators at the same volume

Great story bad performances

Once again Pierce Brown comes though with an amazing story. My only complaint with this audiobook is the voice acting of the characters other than Darrow. Should've had Tim Gerard Reynolds narrate the entire book. He has always been great and I kind of got used to his voicing of the characters.

About to start listening to my second time through as I may have missed some things.

Changed narrators

Why change the narrators? Tim Gerard is great, but the extras from the last book were much better. Especially Lyra. Good story but should have been the same.

Great BUT, the audio mastering is ridiculous

The story is fantastic, and the performances were fantastic, but the audio mastering is so poor, it was frustrating to listen to at times.
The narrator who played Ephraim, for example, started each sentence near yelling, and finished each sentence in a whisper. Often he would speak so lowly that I’d have to monitor the volume and turn it up to absolute maximum, then all of a sudden he would be bellowing and blast my ears.
If only they would have better microphone awareness and at least if the audio master applied a dynamic compression filter to limit the minimum and maximum volume range to a level where I didn’t have to have the volume at 9-10 out of 10 just to understand the dialogue, this recording would be much more tolerable.
That being said, this is one of the most engaging and exciting stories available.
I wish the Wachowskis, the people who made the film Jupiter Ascending (and matrix) would bring this to the screen.
Bravo. (But please do better with the audio—this is an AUDIObook, people need to be able to listen to this in their car)

Best one yet.

Yup, I ready to put this book ahead of Golden Son as the best one in the Series. It makes for a brutal read, but that's only fair considering that the Rising/Republic is facing annihilation at the hands of the toughest, proudest, merciless and the most remorseless creatures to walk the world.

Lysander's narration was definitely way off. I wasn't a big fan of it in IG either, but they somehow made it worse.

I don't know why they changed Lyria's narrator. I had no problems with Scottish accent in IG since a lot of the Reds originated from that area and they still use some of the ancient jargon. But then again, the new narrator did well enough so no complaints from me.

Virginia's narration was absolutely spot on. I thought it captured her perfectly. I'd put it on par with TGR's narration of Darrow. BRAVO!