The Silverstones Blog team is doing our first buddy read! We’re looking forward to what we hope will be a fun time for everyone. I’ve never participated in a buddy read, much less organized one, so I’m excited to get into it.
But I bet you want to know what book we’re reading.
Okay
I guess I’ll tell you.
We are reading
Empire of Silence by Christopher Ruocchio, book one in the genre-bending Sun Eater series!
“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.
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.
On the wrong planet, at the right time, for the best reasons, Hadrian Marlowe starts down a path that can only end in fire. He flees his father and a future as a torturer only to be left stranded on a strange, backwater world.
Forced to fight as a gladiator and navigate the intrigues of a foreign planetary court, Hadrian must fight a war he did not start, for an Empire he does not love, against an enemy he will never understand.”
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The buddy read will be taking place in November so everyone has time to clear their TBRs. Michael Roberti, Quinn Giguiere, and I will all be doing blog posts throughout the month, and we will also be doing a Youtube livestream!
As an extra incentive, if you preorder the new trade paperback version of Empire of Silence (out September 19th) from Silverstones Books you’ll receive a 10% discount AND double rewards points! This offer is ONLY available for the new edition releasing next month, and the discount will only be active until September 9th, a month from now.
All of us here at the Silverstones Blog are looking forward to journeying into this incredible series, and hope that you join us!