Empire of Silence by Christopher Ruocchio

3.98 AVERAGE

_cayden_'s review against another edition

3.0
adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

rcbooks's review against another edition

3.75
adventurous medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
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patrick_soares's review against another edition

4.0
A solid start that could've been a little better if it wasn't the middle section where the narrative lost significant thrust and things became a little stale.
The World building too felt a little derivative, as everything was 'Not-Dune but close enough'.
But the prose was great, the characters interesting and it left me interested to continue.

capital_'s review against another edition

3.5
adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense 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

mrboo0810's review against another edition

4.25
adventurous dark medium-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

monavril's review against another edition

4.5
adventurous challenging dark slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix

noahanich's review against another edition

5.0
adventurous emotional 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: Yes

ryancull's review against another edition

4.0
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

clairef's review against another edition

4.75
adventurous challenging emotional tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

ombm31329's review against another edition

4.0
adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective sad 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: Yes
Really good first book, a bit tedious to read at some points but the build-up had me so tense at some points and the dialogue is very realistic. Hadrian seems like a really great protagonist (
who seems to struggle with finding his place in this world of corruption and surveillance
) and I’m excited to see where this goes