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Empire of Silence. L'Impero del Silenzio

Christopher Ruocchio

3.97 AVERAGE

llew_98's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging mysterious tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

void_eve's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

toddles00's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

quixishim's review against another edition

3.25

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

alyssathinkstoomuch's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This book bravely asks the question, "What if Kingkiller Chronicles...in space?"
Look. I am Kvothe Trash #1. Of course I ate this up. 
Ruocchio does some cool stuff with politics and religion, and I'm really invested in the Cielcin and their whole thing. I'm gonna read the whole dang series, absolutely no question.

kalebthereader's review against another edition

2.75

adventurous dark reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This author had a home run of a story in the first 120 pages that he just completely threw  away to instead tell a story that was utterly boring. He decided to take so many turns that sadly all ended in dead ends. I will say, he has beautiful prose but his character descriptions were extremely flat. By around page 300, I couldn’t keep the characters straight and felt like I knew nobody. Real rough. I just wish an editor stopped him and said, “go back to the story you were telling on the ship with Demetri, tell that story. I’ve heard the future books get better…do they really get THAT much better though?

With that being said, the last 20 pages lead into Book 2 and it seems like there will be a clearer story. We’ll see if I continue on!

samuehh's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous

garaos's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous dark medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

arkhamcatt's review against another edition

4.25

medium-paced

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I was a bit reluctant to start this series, mainly cause it intimidated me a lil. But I was pleasantly surprised how little effort it took for me to get stuck into the world. I was switching in between the physical and audiobook; both being a great experience!! 
Interested in seeing where the next book leads me. Shoutout Lamarrr 

iamspartacus1212's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated