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Publisher's Summary
The second novel of the galaxy-spanning Sun Eater series merges the best of space opera and epic fantasy, as Hadrian Marlowe continues down a path that can only end in fire.
Hadrian Marlowe is lost.
For half a century, he has searched the farther suns for the lost planet of Vorgossos, hoping to find a way to contact the elusive alien Cielcin. He has not succeeded, and for years has wandered among the barbarian Normans as captain of a band of mercenaries.
Determined to make peace and bring an end to nearly 400 years of war, Hadrian must venture beyond the security of the Sollan Empire and among the Extrasolarians who dwell between the stars. There, he will face not only the aliens he has come to offer peace, but contend with creatures that once were human, with traitors in his midst, and with a meeting that will bring him face to face with no less than the oldest enemy of mankind.
If he succeeds, he will usher in a peace unlike any in recorded history. If he fails...the galaxy will burn.
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- Rachel
- 07-29-19
Well holy buckets
So I read a lot of Sci-Fi, yeah, and a lot of fantasy and the bigger the world building, the more complex the story the better. I cut my fantasy teeth on The Hobbit in 1st grade and my Sci Fi Fangs on Dune in 5th grade, and with those having set the bar for many of us, we always hope to see something brave and bold in those genres.
Christopher Ruocchio has rather knocked my socks off with this and it's predecessor.
Normally I'd balk and roll my eyes at the narrative style but the main character, Marlow is aware of his own flaws & inconsistencies even as he commits his own errors in judgment, repeats his own mistakes and mocks his own hypocrisy, his own attempts to be better with a bitter and deprecating humor. He is the hero and villain of his own story and in that he is painfully relatable. He tries to do better than his circumstances allow, make better decisions than he might have, listen to those who have tried to teach him to be more and yet reacts out of the same rage and pain that any of us would. Grief is deep water, and the argument can be made that the unwillingness to acknowledge the depth of his own waters is ultimately what decided the fate of so many.
Read this, listen to this, make up your own mind! (or try!) It's a true quality read, and a prime example of how your main character doesn't have to be likeable to be relatable (for all you may wish they weren't!).
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- Kindle Customer
- 09-28-19
I wanted to love it but...it's so damn boring
How an author can make an epic space opera involving demonic machines and a rotten galactic empire so...underwhelming is just beyond me. I like the first book in the series and was so wanting to love this one. but it was...boring. I found myself unable to finish it. I tried, and got bored. I tried again, and got bored. The MC just got so whiney and maudlin. At no point does it pick up. There's no action, no intrigue, just...the MC drifting like a ghost through a sad world. I got 3/4 of the way through and returned it. 2/10.
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- @tone0189
- 07-29-19
Complete Story!
What I love most about this series so far is that each book is a self-contained story. If there is no book three then I'll be disappointed, but the heart and soul of this book is Hadrian Marlow's disillusionment.
This second instalment is refreshing and is distinct from the first, I highly recommend the series and am quite impressed with the second instalment.
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- Sherry
- 02-26-21
Introspective and Slow Pace
This book is a mix of Hyperion and the story of Gladiator/Sparticus. At least it gives me the feeling I got when listening to that horribly slow book Hyperion, and the protagonist shares a lot with the main character in Gladiator. Enjoyed much of it, but felt like it drags on and on with nonsense philosophy.
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- Susan L.
- 05-07-20
So good and yet so bad
Could have been one of the best sci fi stories to date but every move in this story is weighed down by excessive lines of inner dialog. The epic world building and suspense is heavily diluted with the character's inner musings and repetitive contemplations that rarely add to the plot. It's like juice made from concentrate, a little bit of the good stuff (really good stuff), with a lot of water. Makes it seem like the author does not trust the reader to come to the "right" conclusion about the main character.
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- jonathan
- 03-10-20
Goddamnit Marlow!
This book could have been amazing, but no, the main character has to be Marlowe.
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- GD5500
- 09-02-19
Exceptional
The authors use and description of body language truly gives form to the characters, showing life in the subtlest emotions to energy and vibrance in action scenes.
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- J. T. Call
- 08-30-19
Incomparable. Ruocchio and Roukin do it again.
The Sun Eater has quickly become my favorite space opera series, launched by Ruocchio’s deft sense of writing, poetry, and world-building and delivered by Roukin’s powerful voice, skilled performance, and pitch-perfect dramatization. It is a joy and pleasure to hear and to read. Well done. I look forward to Book 3, Demon in White.
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- cassady
- 04-13-21
I had to return it.
I don't write reviews very often, but this book annoyed me so much I had to stop listening and return it. I listened to the first volume which was flawed but promising.
The second book in the series (this one) amplifies the flaws and reduces the promising bits.
Someone seriously needs to take the foreshadowing away from Christopher Ruocchio. Seriously. Put it away.
And the bombast: the absolutist statements just gotta stop. It could be argued that it's the character, not the author, but when every character is bombastic, well, you have your answer. And the main character, who is supposed to be ancient and looking back over his life, would not likely have the bombast of a privileged 16 year old boy.
The reader made some weird choices: a bad Russian accent for one of the leads; a love interest is given a West Country accent, so she sounds like a pirate or a BBC field archaeologist. There were a bunch of mispronunciations as well; it's 'foksil,' not 'fore-castle,' dude.
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- Kyle
- 10-07-20
"Kyle like dis book. All fives."
But honestly, this book I enjoyed more than the first as I felt this first book had to set the scene for the saga. This book got into the action very quickly and expanded the universe Ruocchio created giving even more depth, detail, and world building without boring the listener. I cannot wait to listen to his next book which is downloading as I type.
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For almost a hundred years, Hadrian Marlowe has served the empire in its war against the Cielcin, a vicious alien race bent on humanity's destruction. Rumors of a new king among the Cielcin have reached the imperial throne. This one is not like the others. It does not raid borderworld territories, preferring precise, strategic attacks on the humans' empire.
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Fantastic!
- By James on 08-06-20
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Empire of Silence
- By: Christopher Ruocchio
- Narrated by: Samuel Roukin
- Length: 26 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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The galaxy remembers Hadrian Marlowe 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.
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A Slow start at best....then the story tapers off
- By paul nordquist on 08-21-19
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Kingdoms of Death
- Sun Eater, Book 4
- By: Christopher Ruocchio
- Narrated by: Samuel Roukin
- Length: 22 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Hadrian Marlowe is trapped. For nearly a century, he has been a guest of the Emperor, forced into the role of advisor, a prisoner of his own legend. But the war is changing. Mankind is losing. The Cielcin are spilling into human space from the fringes, picking their targets with cunning precision. The Great Prince Syriani Dorayaica is uniting their clans, forging them into an army and threat the likes of which mankind has never seen.
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A true Masterclass of Science Fiction
- By Kayto Al'Thor on 04-19-22
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The Lesser Devil
- By: Christopher Ruocchio
- Narrated by: Samuel Roukin
- Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
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Crispin Marlowe grew up in his brother’s shadow, but Hadrian is gone, and his grandmother - the Duchess of Delos - is dying. Answering her summons, Crispin takes off on what should be a routine flight to the ducal palace from the castle at Devil’s Rest. But he is flying into a trap. There are whispers of treachery among the duchess’s many daughters, rumors of hidden knives in the planet’s court...if he can even make it there.
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More Than Game of Dune
- By Gaman on 04-20-20
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Ashes of Man
- Sun Eater, Book 5
- By: Christopher Ruocchio
- Narrated by: Samuel Roukin
- Length: 22 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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The galaxy is burning. With the Cielcin united under one banner, the Sollan Empire stands alone after the betrayal of the Commonwealth. The Prophet-King of the Cielcin has sent its armies to burn the worlds of men, and worse, there are rumors … whispers that Hadrian Marlowe is dead, killed in the fighting. But it is not so. Hadrian survived with the help of the witch, Valka, and together they escaped the net of the enemy having learned a terrible truth: the gods that the Cielcin worship are real and will not rest until the universe is dark and cold.
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Great as all the others.
- By Russ on 01-29-23
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Queen Amid Ashes
- By: Christopher Ruocchio
- Narrated by: Samuel Roukin
- Length: 4 hrs and 20 mins
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Hadrian Marlowe is newly a knight of the galaxy-spanning Sollan Empire: a hero who they say slew the alien Prince Aranata Otiolo in single combat; a man they say no man or xenobite can kill. Acting on the Emperor’s orders, Hadrian has come to the desert planet Thagura and driven off the Cielcin invaders, rescuing in the process the Lady Gadar Malyan, Baroness of that entire world. But not all the fighting is ended.
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Amazing!
- By Alexander Stephen Mulvey on 09-23-22
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The Wall of Storms
- The Dandelion Dynasty, Book 2
- By: Ken Liu
- Narrated by: Michael Kramer
- Length: 28 hrs and 57 mins
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Kuni Garu, now known as Emperor Ragin, runs the archipelago kingdom of Dara but struggles to maintain progress while serving the demands of the people and his vision. Then an unexpected invading force from the Lyucu Empire in the far distant west comes to the shores of Dara - and chaos results. But Emperor Kuni cannot go and lead his kingdom against the threat himself with his recently healed empire fraying at the seams, so he sends the only people he trusts to be Dara's savvy and cunning hopes against the invincible invaders: his children.
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A new favorite!
- By Davis Tran on 04-21-20
By: Ken Liu
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Imperium Descent: Volume I
- By: Christopher Hopper
- Narrated by: Christopher Hopper
- Length: 15 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Once a respected Imperium stratusaire, Pelegrin Hale now collects bounties with a local mercenary guild. But when he gets ambushed, he must choose between his dream of reenlisting and saving mercs who hate him. Meanwhile, Princess Orelia Pendaline is interrupted from palace life by an intruder. The would-be thief threatens to steal the family's most valuable possession. Once Orelia unmasks the interloper, she's not prepared to do what justice requires.
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Something special!
- By William Ketzeback on 11-15-22
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The Blackest Heart
- By: Brian Lee Durfee
- Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds
- Length: 36 hrs and 24 mins
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Gladiator. Assassin. Thief. Princess. And the slave. The five warrior angels have been revealed; one by one, the mystical weapons they once wielded are being found, and an ancient prophecy is finally being fulfilled. Or is it? For when it comes to recorded history, much is intended to manipulate and deceive.
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The cake is a lie. There is no cake.
- By Jwiz on 03-29-19
By: Brian Lee Durfee
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Of Darkness and Light
- The Bound and the Broken, Book 2
- By: Ryan Cahill
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 23 hrs and 44 mins
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Behind the towering walls of Belduar, Calen Bryer and his companions stand in defense of the city and its new king. In over a thousand years, Belduar has never fallen. It has stood as a bastion of hope. But the Lorian empire are at its walls once more, and the Dragonguard are coming.
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a great debut series
- By a.m on 12-29-22
By: Ryan Cahill
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Stones of Light
- Threadlight, Book 2
- By: Zack Argyle
- Narrated by: Adam Gold
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
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Chrys swore to never again let the Apogee take control but, in a moment of desperation, he gave in. Now, he will learn what the Apogee truly wants. In Alchea, Laurel will do anything to get her threadlight back, even if it means working for the leader of the Bloodthieves. But, she has no choice...a life without threadlight is no life at all.
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Excellent fantasy tale
- By TwoBoysMom on 11-05-22
By: Zack Argyle
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Locklands
- A Novel
- By: Robert Jackson Bennett
- Narrated by: Tara Sands
- Length: 21 hrs and 35 mins
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Sancia, Clef, and Berenice have gone up against long odds in the past. But the war they’re fighting now is one even they can’t win. This time, they’re not facing robber-baron elites or even an immortal hierophant, but an entity whose intelligence is spread over half the globe—one that uses the magic of scriving to control not just objects but human minds. To fight it, they’ve used scriving technology to transform themselves and their allies into an army—a society—unlike anything humanity has seen before.
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Letdown
- By MRod on 07-02-22