Published in 2015 by American Author Pierce Brown, Golden Son is the sequel to the novel Red Rising, making it the second book in the Red Rising saga. The novel continues the story of Darrow as he seeks to infiltrate and destroy from within the society that oppressed his family and killed his wife. The novel has a rating of 4.46 stars out of 5 on GoodReads, which places it slightly above the first book. It placed #6 on the New York Times best-seller list, and won the 2015 Good Reads choice award for science fiction. The rating was accumulated from over 259,000 ratings.