What irks me is when a Postscript Partwork exists without obvious meaning. Given the way author Pierce Brown used Morning Star to pretty decisively wrap the vast majority of the trilogy's plotlines, Iron Gold is tipped to be an example of the Postscript Partwork par excellance. It's an example of what I call a "Postscript Partwork": a series concludes pretty definitively, or has been ended for quite a long time, yet the author/creator decides to give (some of) the people what they want and pens another book/film/season for them. The reason I bring up a trilogy of YA sci-fi novels whose "final" book came out two years ago is because the trilogy's fourth installment, Iron Gold, hit shelves this month. With a ton of foreshadowed resolutions and a body count that makes Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows look conservative, Morning Star wasn't a bad book, but it certainly sacrificed most of what made the middle chapter of the series so gripping. It becomes clear there's only one of two ways that Darrow's crusade against the Society can conclude, and as the end draws near it makes things highly predictable. Again, without wishing to spoil, the story moves in a different direction, albeit a far more conventional one. That in turn made the decline of its successor, the trilogy-capping Morning Star, all the more disappointing.
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