Empire of Silence

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Christopher Ruocchio: Empire of Silence (2019, Orion Publishing Group, Limited)

624 pages

English language

Published April 7, 2019 by Orion Publishing Group, Limited.

ISBN:
978-1-4732-1827-7
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4 stars (11 reviews)

It was not his war. On the wrong planet, at the right time, for the best reasons, Hadrian Marlowe started down a path that could only end in fire. The galaxy remembers him as a hero: the man who burned every last alien Cielcin from the sky. They remember him as a monster: the devil who destroyed a sun, casually annihilating four billion human lives--even the Emperor himself--against Imperial orders. But Hadrian was not a hero. He was not a monster. He was not even a soldier. Fleeing his father and a future as a torturer, Hadrian finds himself stranded on a strange, backwater world. Forced to fight as a gladiator and into the intrigues of a foreign planetary court, he will find himself fight a war he did not start, for an Empire he does not love, against an enemy he will never understand.

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1 star

I don't hate-read things. If something is annoying me, or boring me (or both, as this book did), I give up. Yet reading this became a weird compulsion I had to pull myself from, because I really, really wanted it to become good. It has promise! The worldbuilding is excellent. But it's just not enough.

I could go on and on and on about every little thing that annoys me in this book (and I partially have in my notes on the kindle edition of this mess), but I'll suffice to say this: What is the fucking point of all this pseudo philosophy if you have nothing to say beyond your own tired genre conventions? I'd take sparse, Sandersonian prose any day over a book full of long-winded purple prose and nothing meaningful to say beyond 'what if my protagonist was actually.... a bad guy?'

But not, you know, …

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5 stars

När boken är nästan 580 sidor och man tycker den är för kort. Den känslan. Vill genast dyka ner i nästa bok i serien "Sun Eater", men får vänta tills juli...

Baksidestexten säger något om blandning av rymdopera, sci-fi och äventyr. Och det stämmer nog rätt bra.

Paralleller till gamla romarriket i det imperium som huvudkaraktären tillhör. Inte uttalat, men namnet "Hadrianus"/"Hadrian" passar också hyfsat bra som någon intresserad av såväl konst som lärdom. (Visavi kejsaren Hadrianus alltså).

Bladvändare av rang. Också trevligt med alla språk och de lingvistiska utvikningarna.

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