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Empire of Silence

The universe-spanning science fiction epic

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Empire of Silence

By: Christopher Ruocchio
Narrated by: John Lee
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Hadrian Marlowe, privileged first son of a Duke, was destined for greatness, and he has become a legend. The Sun-Slayer. The Breaker of Sieges. The Crusher of Civilisations. His is a story which defined the course of worlds.

This novel is not that story - not the only laid out in the history books, charting the 300 years of his life. Rather this is Hadrian's story, told in his own worlds. Of being passed over by his father for rule in favour of his younger brother and sent to a military academy against his wishes. Of being kidnapped in transit to that planet and sold into slavery on a planet at the edge of our war against the Cielcen...and of how he used their eventual attack to claw his way back into the dangers and opportunities of politics.

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©2018 Christopher Ruocchio (P)2018 Orion Publishing Group Adventure Cyberpunk Dystopian Military Science Fiction Space Opera Fiction War
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Such a quiet book, whether that’s due to audible or not I am unsure. Everything else was great.

Poor sound quality

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Great story could have been more action , liked the main character easy to get behind

Great character development

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This book will get better. Just get through it. Ignore the similarity to Dune. It gets better

Just get through this book

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The performance is brilliant, bringing the characters and story to life with clarity and purpose. The story, while long and very detailed, is a great audio book.

A Vast Tale

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For some reason the sound mixing in this came out so earthly quiet it made it difficult to listen to at times. Audible really needs to allow volume boosting

Love this story! Can’t wait for more

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Wow, truly just an incredible story through and through. A layered, charismatic and very likeable protagonist retelling a story throughout a well thought engaging and immersive universe leaving me excited to plunge into the remaining books in the sun eater series.

Remarkable. Best book ever.

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I absolutely love this book I have to be honest it is an amazing journey I don't know why it's not a New York bestseller

amazing book

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I loved the story, the whole scene and characters were well put together and made me want more, my only issue was with the clipped and overly British fella reading it, it was very monotone and lacked any character to make me want to relate to any of the characters. I might try reading it next to see if it’s better.

Good story, awfully unexpressive and monotone narrator!

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The middle was the worst part it took over six hours of him been a prisoner before he did anything and this is 6 real time hours the MC love interest is the worst when ever she sees something she doesn’t like she treat the MC as if he was the source of all evil when he not the ruler of the empire and she a massive hypocrite 

Good start good end boring middle

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The writing is really excellent and the characters well constructed. The story was quite exhausting and quite painful. So many negative twists and turns. Despite this the story is compelling and draws the reader on. The narrator does a great job.

Strong writing - but exhausting

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