784 pages

English language

Published Dec. 31, 2017 by Orion Publishing Group, Limited.

ISBN:
978-1-4732-2427-8
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3 stars (1 review)

It was not his war. On the wrong planet, at the right time, for the best reasons, Hadrian Marlowe started down a path that could only end in fire. 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. Fleeing his father and a future as a torturer, Hadrian finds himself stranded on a strange, backwater world. Forced to fight as a gladiator and into the intrigues of a foreign planetary court, he will find himself 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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3 stars

I finished this book, but only because I don't like abandoning books, and they have to be really horrible for me to abandon them. But I couldn't get into this book. I wasn't invested in Hadrian, and it didn't really start to get interesting until the last quarter of the book. Maybe the second book is better, but I haven't decided if I'll read it yet.