Loved itI actually enjoyed this. I thought it was a good introduction to Hrien as a character. I love the concepts in this series so much, you guys.
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Empire of silence (2018)
Others: Mostly positive 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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MixedI eventually bought in and I fell in love with the concept of the book and of the series, but I didn't like how it was executed. when I finished Empire of Silence, I felt lukewarm.
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Loved itThis book was always good it didn't quite hit the great section for me. Christopher Rocko is no doubt a fantastic writer.
Loved itif you like a widescreen epic Space Opera and if relentlessly Alien aliens well-drawn characters a complex deep history breathtaking close qu tobattle scenes alien relics a flawed but interesting protagonist and a lush Prostyle float your boat then these are definitely the books for you
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Loved itthis is Sai fantasy and in my opinion the best that Sai fantasy has to offer now I know that's a rather Limited field but with not a ton of competition but it's it's incredible
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Loved itthis was such a great start man and he wrote this so young and it's I really I gotta go I gotta I wouldn't say it's great though now that I'm thinking
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Not a fanI just think there is a voice to the narration the main character looking back on his life that's just so full of melod drama that I just can't handle from this character.
Loved itit's being chronicled back to you it's very good so yes we're gonna put that one right there
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Mixedyou do want to start back at the beginning with Empire of silence and like I said I kind of fell in love with this series slowly because it took a while to really see where it's going