Empire of Silence
The Sun Eater: Book One
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4.4 • 386 Ratings
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- $4.99
Publisher Description
"[E]pic science fiction at its most genuinely epic." —James S.A. Corey, New York Times-bestselling author of The Expanse novels
"This wow book is a must for fans of Pierce Brown and Patrick Rothfuss." —Library Journal (starred)
Hadrian Marlowe, a man revered as a hero and despised as a murderer, chronicles his tale in the galaxy-spanning debut of the Sun Eater series, merging the best of space opera and epic fantasy.
It was not his war.
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.
On the wrong planet, at the right time, for the best reasons, Hadrian Marlowe starts down a path that can only end in fire. He flees his father and a future as a torturer only to be left stranded on a strange, backwater world.
Forced to fight as a gladiator and navigate the intrigues of a foreign planetary court, Hadrian must fight a war he did not start, for an Empire he does not love, against an enemy he will never understand.
Customer Reviews
Slow but thrilling
Starts slow but sets up an extremely interesting universe.
Fantastic Read
Grabs you pretty quickly. The author really gets his stride after the first few chapters, and it becomes a page-turner.
Love the voice and point of view, and skillful juxtaposition of internal and external dialogue.
2/5
The naivety and entitlement of the protagonist makes me not like him and unsympathetic towards him. He is also a hopeless romantic. The book don’t get good until the last 3rd of it.