Empire of Silence

Sun Eater, Book 1

By: Christopher Ruocchio

Narrated by: Samuel Roukin

Hadrian Marlowe, a man revered as a hero and despised as a murderer, chronicles his tale in the galaxy-spanning debut of the Sun Eater series, merging the best of space opera and epic fantasy.

It was not his war. On the wrong planet, at the right time, for the best reasons, Hadrian Marlowe started down a path that could only end in fire.

The galaxy remembers him as a hero: the man who burned every last alien Cielcin from the sky. They remember him as a monster: the devil who destroyed a sun, casually annihilating four billion human lives - even the emperor himself - against Imperial orders.

But Hadrian was not a hero. He was not a monster. He was not even a soldier. Fleeing his father and a future as a torturer, Hadrian finds himself stranded on a strange, backwater world.

Forced to fight as a gladiator and into the intrigues of a foreign planetary court, he will find himself fighting a war he did not start, for an empire he does not love, against an enemy he will never understand.

©2018 Christopher Ruocchio (P)2018 Recorded Books

Truly amazing work - narrator and author alike!

There is nothing quite so satisfying as a brilliant narrator, reading a first person/past tense book. It feels somewhat like listening to an elder's tale of their past - we know the end product, but how they got there is the true soul of the person.

That feeling is doubly true, when that book is as incredible as this one.

Without doubt, the best book of the year, that I've had the pleasure of listening to! (and I listen to a lot!)

Excellent. Not as derivative as I feared

I really enjoyed this audiobook, and listened to the entire thing over a weekend while working around the house.

If the settings had changed slightly, it could have been presented as a fantasy novel, which is typical of many space operas.

I did not find it as derivative as others have stated. It does share some concepts with Dune, but is by no means a Dune-wannabe. The only similarity that I found with Patrick Rothfuss was the structure of the story, which Patrick Rothfuss did not invent. I found it far superior to The Name of the Wind, which I believe is overrated and bloated.

I am really looking forward to the sequel, which will hopefully arrive in a timely manner.

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This book is fantastic. I found myself listening to this at any moment I could and spending extra time in my car after I arrived at my destination just to hear a little more. The storyline is fantastic and it leaves me wanting the second book to come even sooner

great story and great narration.

A great novel. Cannot wait for the next entry in the series. Wonderfully interesting world.

Space Opera at its finest

This is an incredibly good space opera that fans of the genre will love immensely.