Loved itI had an absolute ball reading this and the next book and to a degree the one after that, too.
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Howling Dark (2019)
Others: Leaning positive The second novel of the galaxy-spanning Sun Eater series merges the best of space opera and epic fantasy, as Hadrian Marlowe continues down a path that can only end in fire. Hadrian Marlowe is lost. For half a century, he has searched the farther suns for the lost planet of Vorgossos, hoping to find a way to contact the elusive alien Cielcin. He has not succeeded, and for years has wandered among the barbarian Normans as captain of a band of mercenaries. Determined to make peace and bring an end to nearly four hundred years of war, Hadrian must venture beyond the security of the Sollan Empire and among the Extrasolarians who dwell between the stars. There, he will face not only the aliens he has come to offer peace, but contend with creatures that once were human, with traitors in his midst, and with a meeting that will bring him face to face with no less than the oldest enemy of mankind. If he succeeds, he will usher in a peace unlike any in recorded history. If he fails...the galaxy will burn.
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- 9780756413040
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- 688 pages
Genres: science fiction
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Not a fanIt's well written, but I got so frustrated with this book, you guys. I put down the series after reading it because it did not hook me the way I was hoping it would and it just made me more frustrated than anything else.
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MixedThe last 50% of this book was super interesting, and definitely makes me quite curious to see like where the rest of the series is going to take us. So, yeah, I'm still not like fully sold, fully obsessed, but I did like book two more than book one. So, I feel like we're moving in the right direction, but this series is also quite the commitment.
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MixedI felt like there should have been a book between Empire of silence and Howling dark. I'd like to continue the series I need to reread in dark cuz I was in a book slump at the time.
Loved itit was used to Perfection it adds this whole another element it brings this epic scope to things it was it was just awesome
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Loved itthis kicked off like just five days of nothing but Sun eater like Hadrian just explodes off the page in this one like he just comes into his own Christopher rockchio just reaches out and grabs you and it's just so compelling
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