Empire Of Silence by Christopher
Ruocchio is the first book in The Sun-Eater series and revolves
around a man known as Hadrian Marlowe. A man who some see as a hero and others see
as a monster. This book is the first installment of a series detailing how
Hadrian Marlowe killed a dun, wiped out four billion lives, and wiped out an
alien race in the process. How does one person do that? How does one become a
man like that? How does a good person become that?
For one thing, it helps if you can live for hundreds of years. Beyond that, it gets very complicated. It's kind of a cross between a science fiction version of Game of Thrones type read and the fantasy style read of The Name of The Wind by Patrick Rothfuss. A read that is written from the perspective of after the event with lots of foreshadowing. There are numerous time skips in the read and is constructed as more of a slices of life type read instead of a straight linear read.
Empire Of
Silence by Christopher Ruocchio is not a book for everyone and not for younger
readers. This is a very adult book with references to rape, child rape, and
contains numerous violent scenes and torture scenes. Horrible things happen to
a lot of people and those things are frequently described in great detail. The
universe created by the author is a grim and often downright awful place to
live in and that fact is constantly in front of the reader.
While I very much enjoyed the book, I certainly understand why many other folks would not like it at all. I am currently on hold for the second book in the series, Howling Dark.
Empire Of
Silence (The Sun Eater: Book One)
by Christopher
Ruocchio
https://sollanempire.com/index.html
DAW Books, Inc. (Penguin)
July 2018
ISBN#: 978-0-7564-1300-2
Hardback (also available
in audio, eBook, and paperback formats)
624 Pages
My reading copy came from the Oak Lawn Branch of the Dallas Public Library System.
Scott A. Tipple
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