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Empire of the Feast
by Bendi Barrett
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
"Eternity can be pleasure and consumption. We will eat the stars and drench the darkness in ecstasy.”
I just realized this now but sometimes good books just fall under the radar relegated to exist in their quiet glory and within them, really great worlds and people are hidden. This is one of those books. What an interesting mindbend. So glad I stumbled on this.
Plot/Storyline/Themes:
Okay so what happens when a Space King almost a deity (in a world living in the bosom of the Sun, powered by a beast) has been reincarnated every single time as a woman, an empress and then, by some inexplicable fluke (or maybe it was the murder) is now a man, an Emperor?
Two Sentences, A Scene or less - Characters:
Leeds, The First Retainer sees the world as only the grand vizier, advisor, right and hand man of an omnipresent empire can- a bunch of planets on a screen, easily erased for the Empire's continued rule. Blot out a few million people as a warning like it's nothing before breakfast.
The Emperor Riverson is curious reincarnation.I wonder if the Empress was bloodthirsty or just allowed Leeds run of all affairs - this recent reincarnation out off his female form and into his male form has rewired his mind and he is different. I also wonder about his crown.
Favorite/Curious/Ludicrous/Unique Scene:
Uhm..😳 The Feast? The Bacchanal😉not yet clutching pearls I tell you. I did not expect that and the hierarchy of participants and acts is actually legitimised ... like a magnetic court driven by and outright orgy.
"Over the next few hours Riverson conducts the feast. He finds that the debauchery doesn't strictly require his presence or attention. If he focuses, he can sense the arrangements and reconfigure them with a minor push of his will"🔥
Favorite/Curious/Ludicrous/Unique Quotes:
So many quotable lines, I had to rein my annotation craze and stick with just 1 key moment.
🖤 “Riverson shivers, balks at this power—unearned—dropped into his lap like a weight. He thinks a tiny treason, of what it would take to dismantle this engine, but abandons the idea immediately; how can he confront what he barely understands?.” (Riverson being entirely different to all his previous incarnations )
Favorite/Curious/Ludicrous/Unique Concepts:
■Staghead Empire: Corrected Center
■The River
■ The Feast
■ Empire Reincarnation
■ The Sun.The Rapacious. The Beast.
■General Celestin No-One
StoryGraph Challenge: 1800 Books by 2025
Challenge Prompt: 150 Science Fiction Books by 2025
I just realized this now but sometimes good books just fall under the radar relegated to exist in their quiet glory and within them, really great worlds and people are hidden. This is one of those books. What an interesting mindbend. So glad I stumbled on this.
Plot/Storyline/Themes:
Okay so what happens when a Space King almost a deity (in a world living in the bosom of the Sun, powered by a beast) has been reincarnated every single time as a woman, an empress and then, by some inexplicable fluke (or maybe it was the murder) is now a man, an Emperor?
Two Sentences, A Scene or less - Characters:
Leeds, The First Retainer sees the world as only the grand vizier, advisor, right and hand man of an omnipresent empire can- a bunch of planets on a screen, easily erased for the Empire's continued rule. Blot out a few million people as a warning like it's nothing before breakfast.
The Emperor Riverson is curious reincarnation.I wonder if the Empress was bloodthirsty or just allowed Leeds run of all affairs - this recent reincarnation out off his female form and into his male form has rewired his mind and he is different. I also wonder about his crown.
Favorite/Curious/Ludicrous/Unique Scene:
Uhm..😳 The Feast? The Bacchanal😉not yet clutching pearls I tell you. I did not expect that and the hierarchy of participants and acts is actually legitimised ... like a magnetic court driven by and outright orgy.
"Over the next few hours Riverson conducts the feast. He finds that the debauchery doesn't strictly require his presence or attention. If he focuses, he can sense the arrangements and reconfigure them with a minor push of his will"🔥
Favorite/Curious/Ludicrous/Unique Quotes:
So many quotable lines, I had to rein my annotation craze and stick with just 1 key moment.
🖤 “Riverson shivers, balks at this power—unearned—dropped into his lap like a weight. He thinks a tiny treason, of what it would take to dismantle this engine, but abandons the idea immediately; how can he confront what he barely understands?.” (Riverson being entirely different to all his previous incarnations )
Favorite/Curious/Ludicrous/Unique Concepts:
■Staghead Empire: Corrected Center
■The River
■ The Feast
■ Empire Reincarnation
■ The Sun.The Rapacious. The Beast.
■General Celestin No-One
StoryGraph Challenge: 1800 Books by 2025
Challenge Prompt: 150 Science Fiction Books by 2025