Empire of Silence

This book was a hair away from being a 3/5 for me. My big feeling on this book as I read it was “so this whole book is just gonna be here?”

The book was definitely good, and I enjoyed reading it the whole time and would recommend to most people who like the genre.

Extremely mild spoilers

I went in expecting something more epic and galaxy-spanning, where most of this takes place in 4 locations on 2 planets. It felt less like Dune or Star Wars or other epic space operas and more like Name of the Wind, or much more personal stories. For example the stakes were always personal, never wider and more epic.

This isn't a bad thing, and the book is definitely good, but I was just expecting it. Probably because the word epic is in reviews on the front and back cover.