good narration

in spite of what other reviewers say I enjoyed the narration.

the book is okay.

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Good sequel

Great book. Preferred the narrator in the first book but a good performance non the less. Would be interested for him to expand on the events directly after the events of the first book as the snippets given make it sound compelling. Readers may be slightly lost at first as you are dumped into the middle of a story but it is nice not to be spoon fed by an author.

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Good book wrong narrator

Great book but the narrator gets out of breath just stumbling through the story .

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Continuing a captivating plot!

After reading the first book and additional novellas. I have gained an interest into the characters lives. If you have enjoyed dune or Hyperion this book will tick a lot of boxes for you.
One of the downsides is that the story tends to get bogged down in the middle of the book and doesn’t pick up again until near the end. On to the demon in white next!

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A bit difficult to get into, I was never gripped.

Maybe it is me being an old man, but I really felt that at times it was disjointed, having said that the words, descriptions and phrases used made up for the slow times. A long book and I have already purchased the other two, but will give them a miss for the time being. need something more realistic for a while.

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Excellent second book

This is the second book in the sun eater series, and carries on the adventures of Hadrian Marlow.
This book is a little bit slower than the first, but it makes up for that with the overall plot and the introduction of new characters. The narrator has also been changed and as much as I love listening to Jon Lee, the new narrator is an even better fit for how the story is told.

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narrator

audible please re-record with a better i really enjoyed the first book but a narrator can make or kill a book.
book 1 john lee excellent.
book2 cant get passed for chapter because of saul whoever i shall avoid like the plague or covid .
ruined just ruined

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Took a while but it’s got me hooked

As others have said the switch in narrator took a bit of getting used to. That being said after a while I eventually forgot all about the first narrator.

I adore the prose from this author. There’s a quality Tobit that elevates the story, and the characters. I especially appreciate that while Hadrian could so easily be an edgy Mary sue there’s a realness to him that stops that from happening.

Genuinely intrigued to see where this story goes.

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The scope, the story, the undying. This was epic

Let’s start with the good.

This book moves Hadrian from the much smaller personal development tale of the first novel, into the scope and grandeur of the series. It is a huge shift, into something massive and epic and unbelievably intricate. It represents for Hadrian, a change, away from adolescent into a man, a man of legend and myth.

The universe develops and we learn more of the history, of earths demise, of the people and beings that exist within it. And ever bit of it is unique and magical and unbelievable.

The aims are larger, the conflicts more extreme, and the plot begins to wind in a way that is fantastic.

In a word, this book is epic. It’s clear the scope that is possible from the start of the series, but it’s only really here that we get to see it and it is fantastic to watch.

I can’t wait to see what happens next, from where CR has left Hadrian and the new light he has been cast in with his crew.

The bad…

Well, Jinon, I didn’t love her tbh. But it was major.

But what was probably more of an issue for me, were the prose. In the last novel they were bang on. Name of the Wind for sci-fi. But here they just felt too much, to many little interjections from Hadrian away from the story to tell us what he thinks. All of it just bordering purple more than they were in the first novel.

It wasn’t so bad I had to stop, but I didn’t love it.

The other negative, not with the story, is the narration. And this may have contributed to my feelings on the prose. The narrator of empire of silence was PERFECT. This one is a significant step down. I am used to him now, but I almost had to quit and go paperback.

Still, once you get past it, and accept the excessive prose, you get to experience THIS! A massive sci-fi epic, with unique ideas, characters, races, worlds, religions and peoples. It is fantastic and would be strong recommend for me to anyone wanting to try some epic sci-fi.

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Ok but a disappointing sequel

I loved the first in the series. This one was a bit slower in terms of the story evolution. Creative none the less. I hated the narrator!! He made Hadrian sound like a whining petulant teenager, with very little range of emotion. Most women seemed to have a weird breathy voice. I tolerated it to hear the story but wouldn’t listen to anything from that narrator again.

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