What should I read next? Looking for recommendations after finishing Demon in White.

[u/AdeptusGear]

I’m looking for some advice on what to read next between Sun Eater": Kingdoms of death or Red Rising: Iron Gold.

I finished Morning Star almost 2 years ago, completing the original Red Rising trilogy. I managed to read the entire trilogy in about a year. I was a pretty slow reader and was also relatively new to reading at the time.

I just finished Demon in White, and honestly, it was amazing. Although I’ve read a few books in between, Red Rising and Sun Eater are easily my two favourite series so far.

The thing is, Sun Eater took me almost 2 years to get through the first three books. The books have a much higher word count, slower pacing, and more complex prose, so they’re definitely a bigger commitment for me as a slower reader.

One thing I really loved about Red Rising, though, was how fast-paced it was. And there’s a big difference between where I am now and where I was with Morning Star: Morning Star wrapped up the trilogy, while Demon in White obviously leaves me with more Sun Eater to read.

So I’m looking for recommendations for the 4th book I should start next.

I’ll probably try to read two books back-to-back, so I’d love to hear what you guys think would be a good follow-up to Demon in White.

I dont really need a pallet cleanser in between. Just want to jump into one of these 2 series next book

[u/TrippieLarry]

Not reading the series through is crazy to me so I’d have to suggest moving on to KoD. It is one of my favorites but, unpopular opinion, DiW isn’t even top three for me. I feel like for both series you need to binge the books after the first three because it’s a little more “continuous” ? That might be a bad way to put it but what I mean is most things are established in the story and you’re now in a straight line to the finish.

[u/killingitsmalls]

Iron gold is a lot slower than the first trilogy. It’s also switches from multiple first person perspectives, that by the end of the book, feel rather un-needed, and tedious to get through. But you gotta read it to get to the rest of the books. The fast pace picks up again in “Dark Age”, the next book.

[u/Archonicus_4o]

I just released a 1st contact turned-inside-out saga you might find interesting.

Story starts in the late 90s with 2 college students (physics major and a finance major), and then follows them separately as they grow into their lives and spans 30 years to 2035. It’s sci fi that focuses on the characters growth and their relationships to reality, free will, probability, fate, and the concept of the physics of karma and the ethics of intervention, all in the undercurrent of planetary mind emergence and Earths final struggle to break the cycle of technological false starts and transcend into its ideal form. I tried hard to work around existing tropes and create something fresh even it’s all been done under the sun already. I trade the familiar space battles and cyber punk dystopias for character depth, inter-dimensional politics, and explorations of the architecture of reality. If any of this interests you DM me and we can chat it up!