Lets not get Quiet about this

Empire of Silence by Christopher Ruocchio, first book of the Sun Eater Series. Wow.

What a title.

Reading this book has me wanting to pick up the next, money not withstanding.

If you've read and loved Patrick Rothfuss' King Killer Series, Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game, as well as Mark Lawrence's Broken Empire Series than I recommended this book to you. Present into the past, hierarchies and politics, and lets not forget aliens, whats not to love?

This book is beautifully written. (I'm no expert in writing, but at this point I wish I was so that I could explain it you.) I'm going to try to explain anyway though. These characters have there own dialogue, their own voice that shines through which makes the book come alive. They live on worlds ruled by the Solan empire, slaves to their rulers and social class. It's told from Hadrian's point of view throughout the whole book, a memoir of sorts. To him he's been alive some odd 1,500 years give or take and he's telling the story about who he is and what he became known as (getting some Rothfuss and Lawrence vibes). I try to look at each book that I read and its prose, but I always get too caught up in the book. That's another way of describing how well this book was written. And I bet this book was no easy feat to write, especially given that this vast world was put in 600-900 pages depending on which edition you read. There was some serious thought put into making this Universe (pun intended-even if its not really funny). There are books out there that don't do their universe justice. So given that the only confusion on my part was keeping up with this new universe, it's like waking up some 10000 years in the past, there's a vague notion of whats going on but the language is a little off and the people are acting weird.

Now there's a pretty decent amount of characters in this book and personally I got a little lost towards the end. I tried to keep up with the characters that I knew would stay in Hadrian's life and would be important throughout the series. Now I didn't know this at the time, but in the back theirs somewhat of a character glossary and that always helps.

I love me some Had. I love me some everyone. I love how he tells his story and all the characters that he meets and how he interacts with them and what he feels about them and even what he may possibly come to feel about them and what part they play in his story and his part in this massive hole in history. Everyone in this book has some sort of piece that makes you have complex feelings about and that what makes them so human even if in this world they've strayed far from it.

Now I'm not a big summary type of person, I feel like a focus on the things that attracted me and well what I loved you may not. So here's a link to an official summary:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36454667-empire-of-silence

and here's where you can buy it:

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/empire-of-silence-christopher-ruocchio/1127203756?ean=9780756413019#/