Empire of Silence. L'Impero del Silenzio by Christopher Ruocchio

3.97 AVERAGE

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skroot's review against another edition

3.0
This was decent, but not nearly what I hoped it would be. For one, the prose is really, irritatingly "perfect". I don't mind how melodramatic the writing is, but this is exactly the type of writing that makes me want to never pick up a sci-fi book. Extremely bloated, overly sophisticated. I had to use the audiobook to speed up the reading, because I couldn't stand it.

The story itself was decent, but about halfway through, I started getting really impatient with how little was happening, and I kind of just wanted to finish the book and be done with it. Only near the end did it actually get a bit more interesting.

I'm probably going to try book 2 and see if it gets better, because I could look past the writing if the story was good enough, and there were definitely moments in this one that hinted at something better.

sivilas's review against another edition

4.25
adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective 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

camilojvilla's review against another edition

5.0
Favorite this year so far.

conner_cross's review against another edition

4.25
adventurous challenging emotional hopeful mysterious reflective tense 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: No

ashandrews14's review against another edition

3.25
adventurous emotional slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

sugilite's review against another edition

4.0
dark reflective slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

garyschu's review against another edition

4.5
adventurous funny tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
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knkennedy's review against another edition

4.5
adventurous challenging dark hopeful medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

lemonloud's review against another edition

4.0
challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

haileynd's review against another edition

3.75
This was good, I was waiting for it to be great …..