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A review by isabellarobinson7
Empire of Silence by Christopher Ruocchio
adventurous
slow-paced
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Rating: 3 stars
Man, that beginning was so great. It had everything I wanted from The Name of the Wind - an old, washed-up hero telling his story, but in a sci fi setting and overall just... better. I was invested in the world, the power dynamics and (kind of) the characters. But then we did the same thing. Again. And again. And I got bored. It got so repetitive, that even though I quite enjoyed the first few repeats, I learned you really can have too much of a good thing, because it really grated on me the third and fourth time we ended up doing the same thing again.
I knew these books existed before they seemed to blow up online in the past year because they have been stocked at my tiny library for years now (who knew, but it was actually ahead of the trends for once), so I had pretty high expectations going in, and while the beginning was very promising, the rest was a real let down.
Man, that beginning was so great. It had everything I wanted from The Name of the Wind - an old, washed-up hero telling his story, but in a sci fi setting and overall just... better. I was invested in the world, the power dynamics and (kind of) the characters. But then we did the same thing. Again. And again. And I got bored. It got so repetitive, that even though I quite enjoyed the first few repeats, I learned you really can have too much of a good thing, because it really grated on me the third and fourth time we ended up doing the same thing again.
I knew these books existed before they seemed to blow up online in the past year because they have been stocked at my tiny library for years now (who knew, but it was actually ahead of the trends for once), so I had pretty high expectations going in, and while the beginning was very promising, the rest was a real let down.