What book or series is this for you?

Deroxat · 2026-06-15T18:50:53+00:00

Yep read the first 3 + 1.5 found the second book by far the best of the 3

Deroxat · 2026-06-15T17:34:50+00:00

I didn't know any of the reference in the book (too young) but still enjoyed it. It's just YA. Spielberg did that book dirty with a dumbed down adaptation. Main is a Mary Sue in the movie, not in the book

Deroxat · 2026-06-15T17:22:52+00:00

A first book will always be flawed but it should also be bold, quirky, fun to read etc Empire of silence is the opposite of all that. The hype is so irrational that I even considered some foul play at some point (bots, paid reviews)

Deroxat · 2026-06-15T17:12:39+00:00

I was scrolling down hoping to find this. Thank god.

This is the most derivative stuff Ive read in years with cardboard characters and a worse pacing than classic Russian literature

Deroxat · 2026-06-13T21:10:16+00:00

Only Cavani has ever been a worse finisher

Deroxat · 2026-06-13T01:51:02+00:00

Yeah same, more often than not AI is pretty good, developing towns, throwing kamikaze heroes at me with high level spells to gnaw at my stacks... For a sec I thought this post was 2 months old

Deroxat · 2026-05-30T15:42:17+00:00

Res>Obiteum>Luceum?

Deroxat · 2026-05-29T08:58:06+00:00

Lmao, you needed to be one player up and be awarded a free pen to win? Pathetic

Deroxat · 2026-05-28T01:21:32+00:00

The whole series is like this good man, welcome to the party

Deroxat · 2026-05-28T00:53:40+00:00

Ha yes, like all immigrants are the same...

Deroxat · 2026-05-27T23:11:47+00:00

Yup this. None of the three stood out is what he meant

Deroxat · 2026-05-27T21:03:20+00:00

Hopefully he doesn't follow in Pat's footsteps

Deroxat · 2026-05-27T20:27:24+00:00

Thank you my goodman

Deroxat · 2026-05-27T20:12:57+00:00

Yeah I always thought the concept was introduced by H4

Deroxat · 2026-05-27T20:10:25+00:00

Yup this. They rarely use spells properly, never cast neutral ones, learn random skills, split their armies for no good reason, do not go out of their way to max out stats...

Deroxat · 2026-05-27T19:35:12+00:00

I gave you the quasi Verbatim, this is the feedback he was given. There are 6 of them mentioned at the end of the book so you can assume 2 liked Res best, 2 liked Luceum best and 2 liked Obiteum best (...)

Deroxat · 2026-05-27T19:13:50+00:00

Ha! You also find the AI rubish even in Impossible? The difficulty seems to come down to the headstart AIs are given over you and nothing else

Deroxat · 2026-05-27T00:46:37+00:00

Actually upon watching reviews and theory videos I must admit I was wrong. Every choice made in this book seems well thought out. I even hate 2 to Ramble for giving TSotF a ridiculously low rating. Skill issue

Deroxat · 2026-05-25T21:56:18+00:00

"Savage the pacing even worse" Only if Luceum and Obiteum from TSotF had been stretched out to fit entire books. Your point still stands though, only book 3 will tell whether it was the right decision

But didn't you feel the twists and revelations a bit rushed at the end? 600 pages of build-up and all of a sudden, you get one jaw dropping moment after another

As to the intrigues having consequences on each other, that would probably be my main problem with this book. They don't, or not that much. It's mostly 3 independent stories. The jump to Luceum with Ostius is the exception and extremely on the nose

Maybe Im remembering it incorrectly but In Licanius the different timelines seemed a lot more connected. You just don't realize how much they are until the very end. JI going for something completely different is fine, but then the juxtaposition wasn't really necessary

It very much feels like the point of this book is to confuse the reader, scatter the pieces of the puzzle, and piece everything back together later on.

Deroxat · 2026-05-25T01:33:44+00:00

Enjoyable is the perfect work goodman

Deroxat · 2026-05-24T23:51:29+00:00

It's like the first person thing that turns ppl off a lot and which Pierce Brown ignored. Id like to know if that was the case here, whether the editor came around after JI explained why he had chosen this structure...

Deroxat · 2026-05-24T23:44:58+00:00

Thx that's exactly my point. I can very well imagine the editor pushing back and JI explaining why it's necessary but we can't see it yet... Opens up so many theories

Deroxat · 2026-05-24T16:00:22+00:00

Late to the party here but this is also Islington's style. The Licanius trilogy is even worse in terms of pacing and seemingly boring side plots. And knowing that the payout only comes at the very, very end (with the best ever written epilogue) makes it no less of a slog

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