Hey Daniel, Thank you for this. This was really humbling to listen to, I'm touched the books have meant so much to you (so far, I could still shoot myself in the foot here in the final act, of course), and grateful for the coverage. For what it's worth, your videos have done no shortage of good for the series, and for me.
Dude! It's so good! Thank you for creating it. I only came across the series via this channel this year and now I'm 68% through Disquiet Gods. You have done an amazing job
This is honestly the best review you've done that I have seen. Thanks for both being so honest and real while doing an amazing job at selling this series. I am hoping to start this series soon!
Facts. This right here! I really connected with the personal growth aspect and your vulnerability. ❤️ Well done🤘 Can't wait to pick this up, just requested from my library. Cheers!
While I respect that the algorithm and therefore the money likes when you do short upbeat snippets, this is the type of review I really enjoy, personally. Thank you, Daniel.
I lost my job recently, it was a career I had been building for the last 8 years or so. I'm in the throes of starting over and "reinventing" myself. I have found a strange solace in the Sun Eater saga. Even though it is fiction, I feel less alone and encouraged to keep pressing forward. Thank you Daniel for being so open with this video. And Thank you Ruocchio for this story that has given us so much more than we ever thought a book could.
I got into Sun Eater because of you and it is now one of my favorite series! I am truly in love with the series and I couldn’t thank you more for bringing this book into my life!
@@manavsingh6145 Yeah, I'm at the end of the second book, and for me this has been a SLOG, this series takes a really long time to say nothing (I feel very little actually happens for such thick books), and I really don't jive with the repeating descriptions( Repeating a description you just gave in a flowery or more often pretensious manner). I've started and stopped this series three times now, and only because Daniel speaks so highly of it, but if a book from a series I enjoy drops, a few of them have april releases, I'll probably be dropping it a fourth time. Does this series gets better in the third installment or if I was going to like it I would've already??
@@manavsingh6145 I really enjoyed this book from the beginning tbh but I got heavily into it during the second and third book and when I knew I loved this series was the fourth book because it really made me feel emotions that not a lot of series can pull out of me, if it doesn’t jive with you though I understand it is a difficult series to get in to. I listen to the audiobooks as well which really help me because the voice actor is super good!
@@adilsoncaetano5684 the third is a lot of people’s favorites but I get it if this is a difficult series to get through I listen to the audiobooks as well so maybe try that because the voice actor is pretty good!
“Oh! That’s my taste done well!” is the most remarkably accurate statement about my relationship with this series. It’s the perfect blend of beautiful prose, character work, and batshit insane action. It was really enjoyable to watch this, having read up to the first 30 pages of Disquiet Gods, knowing everything you reference. Also, this personal format was truly meaningful and resonated with me a great deal.
10/10 I love how you've styled this review. Not every book likely needs this treatment but the raw, emotional, and personal experience for how you've connected with this series really shows. I'm really excited for the audiobook release for Disquiet Gods, and see where Hadrian's journey ends.
This is the my favourite video of yours I've seen. This more quiet attitude to stories that do take up space in your mind and impact you, this honest and patient structure to the video, this equal display of emotion and commentary just strikes me as a crucial and commendable progression and elevation in your content. Thank you Daniel.
DG sitting around his house in nice little sweaters with keyboards and cats and just hanging while talking about the books is nice. It fits with with the more laid back and natural side of DG, he got that wild side too, but this gives off comfortable vibes and is a self aware change up that I dig.
I, for one, absolutely loved how enthusiastic you were about this series. The radiation of your joy discovering this, is clearly conveyed in your videos and passed on to the viewers :) Absolutely love to see that
Fantastic analysis. Christopher Ruocchio is my favorite living author, and I've already spent a fortune collecting hardcover Sun Eater books, something I've never had the urge to do for anyone else. Thank you for helping to shine a spotlight on this criminally under known masterpiece
@@callum7081 Yeah. I actually have two, as I bought one on eBay that turned out to not be in the best of shape, and one in great condition I won from a giveaway during one of Ruocchio’s livestreams. My copy of How,isn’t Dark is unfortunately an ex-lib copy, but it doesn’t have a sticker on it, only a stamp across the top of all the pages.
@@callum7081 I have two actually. One in not great condition I bought from eBay, and a second one in excellent condition I won from a giveaway during one of Ruocchio's livestreams. My HD copy is unfortunately an ex-lib copy, but it doesn't have a sticker, only a stamp across the top of the bound pages.
The honesty and transparency in sharing your struggles, much like Christopher's writing, is a nice reminder of the human struggle and how much we can all relate to each other. Thank you for sharing.
this review is one of my favorite on the entire channel, the emotion, the raw and real love of these stories, I can feel it and now i am for sure gonna read sun eater!!
I will never get tired of you talking about sun eater. I love this series so much. It's my favorite sci-fi series. And listening to you talk about your love for this series gives me so much happiness. Thank you ✨
So great to see this. These books have set the bar so high for me that almost everything else falls short lately. I’ve shed tears many times in these books and they affected me deeply.
The first Sun Eater book is on my shelf on your recommendation. The Will of the Many is my favorite book of 2023 because your review inspired me to read it. Fear not, Daniel. You do not do a disservice to the community. You brighten it, add to it, introduce people to books they'd never have seen or heard of. Give yourself some grace, friend.
Please listen to the graphic audio versions of StormLight Archive. Most authors need to be given the benefit of the doubt and let them lay the groundwork through character development and world building. Once it does it is all worth it!
What Ruocchio has accomplished is just astounding. I'm nearing the halfway point of Disquiet Gods as I write this comment. I'm both excited and sad that this amazing series is almost over. Can't wait to see what his imagination conjures up next when Sun Eater is finished.
I'm 30 seconds in and I'll tell you now, you do a great job highlighting books, shows, games, etc. that you enjoy. We, as your audience, generally like the same things as you and follow you so that we can geek out and be excitable fans with one another. You have gotten me into reading (school really killed any interest I had) and put me on so many books that I want to read. Whatever fear you have as a reviewer know that we think you do a great job
Thank you for being so open. A lot of us deal with these problems and need help to process certain experiences and emotions. Sun Eater is definitely on my tbr now.
Just finished howling dark and all the praise in this video is deserved sun eater is awesome. The only downside is it will ruin modern mainstream sci-fi like Star Wars by showing you how shallow it has become in comparison.
This is my favorite video of yours. The sincerity is clear and appreciated, production is wonderful, and has some of your best quotable phrases. Great work Daniel!
Disquiet Gods really did hit well didn’t it Daniel? I’ll always thank you and other TH-camrs for literally saving this series. If it’d had died after Ashes of Man, which seemed possible, I’d have been crushed.
I know how you feel, Sun Eater really has connected with me as well, albeit for different reasons. Everyone's life tunnel is different, but some of what you're saying about flaws resonates quite strongly. Respect the video Daniel.
Yo, I've been writing novels in your comments section for many years now, as you no doubt know, so I've seen your progression over time. We have been on a similar - if not identical - journey of recovering from trauma. I'm glad you are open about yours. Suneater has not done as much for me as it has for you because I'm clear-eyed about my flaws, and one of the biggest has to do with not repressing emotions learning how to say no to narcissists who want me to do things I'm uncomfortable with, but have done due to a history of traumatic experiences. Hadrian Marlowe - at least at the point I've read - reflects so many of the character traits of narcissists I've had to cut out of my life so being in his headspace has been thoroughly exhausting. I don't particularly enjoy being exhausted by main characters. however, there is enough interesting stuff going on that I'm still reading. I'm enjoying Demon in White, so far, much more than the previous books. With that said, I have been moved by your enthusiasm for the series, because I've seen the dip in your enthusiasm over time and I do get the nostalgia for a time when you just enjoyed reading books and wanted to talk about it and even though I have a barometer for where our tastes intersect and diverge, I trust you as a critic so I've given it a go and I'll probably get to Disquiet Gods later this year. I'm glad to see you are doing better, and enjoying life again. It feels nice to feel, after a long period of numbness. Be well. P.S. I'm really looking forward to a potential Book of the New Sun review, although it is unlikely to have the same impact on you as Suneater does for a LOT of reasons.
Thank you for being vulnerable. I hadn't been interested in The Sun Eater series until you talked about this. I'm going through it right now too and I'd like to read something where the hero is getting through it too.
Sun eater is absolutely goated, I can’t remember the last time when I was reading a series, all I could think about, during work and school was getting home to read more.
I appreciate that you took the time, and had the courage, to do this! That said, you and Talking Story have convinced me. I'm going to start this series. I already ordered a couple of the books. I haven't read space opera in a very long time but hopefully I'll be happy I returned!
2 months later. I stopped at min 3 when this video first came out and immediately started on the series. Thank you very very very much for that. I enjoyed this series beyond words. Thank you helping me find a new addition to my favorites series ever.
I personally crave for more reviews like this-raw and personal. I find the youtube performance grating and it irks me that youtube has all gone down the mr. Beast, overacted and overhyped personality route. I like humans, not performances. This video was one of the most enjoyable you’ve done in a long while. I love suneater and can’t wait to go on with the series. I’m glad you are back to this style of review, thank you for sharing your personal experience with the series.
Thanks for being so personal with this review. Important to talk about. I definitely think books can have a greater impact when they are read at the right time emotionally.
I have been reading this series since 2018 and you hit the nail on the head with how this series had made me feel, I remember joining you discord maybe late 2018 early 2019 and mentioning/posting the first and second book. I’m happy to see that you were able to get around to reading them, you will not be disappointed with Disquiet Gods, Hadrian has more horrors to endure.
Thanks for sharing this with us. If you were wondering if this different approach worked, 10/10 I loved it. You really made it obvious that this is special.
Dude, you brought First Law into my life years ago and it changed my life and turned me into a book reader, and now sun eater has been the first series since that has matched that feeling of having my interests met, EOS was incredible to read I ADORE how it feels like the book has been written by Hadrian it feels so immersive and I love how Hadrian voices things, his melodrama is intoxicating ❤ endlessly fascinated by his journey just getting to the last quarter of Howling Dark
Thanks for brining my attention to this series. I am currently reading "Demon in White", by now I am hooked. The first 2 books were enjoyable (like a backstory for a DnD character), after that I could not stop to read. And I love the worldbuilding, ist amazing. I hope you are doing all right, I wish you all the best and I hope you'll keep getting better.
stuck on ashes of man but excited for the next arc of the saga. thank you for the stellar reviews + reccs. glad you're doing better since last year :) sometimes I wish I didn't listen to the audiobook so I could really sit with the concepts and ideas concretely, in writing like hieroglyphs etched onto limestone. especially for sun eater I had to pause a bit every so often, and the silence and not silence of the world we reside in would flood the world Ruocchio imagined, existing and not existing within the confines of imagination built through lived and unlived experience. drowning, it made me appreciate every breath.
Hadrian having his heart ripped out in book one by what narrator-Hadrian says is one of the most important people in his life made me die a little inside. im excited to read book two now because of your recommendation of this series
Thank you for guiding me to this incredible series and author. They are destined to become modern classics and I believe you have had a real impact in raising awareness of it. Something to be proud of.
Thank you for recommending this book. I just made it to book 5 and it's probably my favorite story so far. But I'm also new to reading with only one years time and being dyslexic I hope to fine more stories that are as good as this one.
Sun Eater is something special. There’s a reason the grass roots campaign has paid off for it (which is a lot more rare than you would think, most everything that makes it to the surface is astroturf by some financial backing) because it’s the real deal. People are taking about it because it’s fantastic.
I love these books SO much. I have read them twice now and only read them after your review of EoS. I could drown in the lore. These have made a huge impact on me to the WoT level, and I have not felt that way in 20+ years.
Bravo!! I actually have had a very similar personal experience with Sun Eater, and I can so identify with what you said about the thrill of finding that series and author who seem to get you specifically as a person and reader. Always forward, always down!
Wow Daniel! This was a 10/10. I want to give you a hug and a huge high five. These books are blowing my mind. I love how you can zoom out and see what's going on in a character and narrative. You're great at what you do and thanks for still doing it.
Thanks for this Daniel I feel like I'm also in a big turning point in my life and seeing your videos continues to keep me going. I love reading and your videos and recommendations keep me on my toes. Great stuff Goblin!
Thank you for the hard work and overcoming the struggle to keep the channel going . Mad 😂😂😂 and grateful You got me into Malazan the struggle totally worth it
i love that you identified deconstruction and reconstruction as the core process that you both related to and went through. as someone who's also had to confront both personal wrongs and privilege and rebuild my life after hurting and alienating people i love, I've come to realize that process is core to accountability and improvement at every level. it's praxis: you have to contextualize your behavior, reflect on it, learn new ideas, try them, rinse and repeat. and grene fiction has always been a really useful tool for people to explore these concepts and try on new perspectives that can help us think and act in more humane and pragmatic ways. all this to say that I'm so glad that you're doing well and doing the work, that you've found your way into your own version of this process and are now finding a way to share it with others. i know you're not a non fiction guy, but i think you would get a lot out of pedagogy of the oppressed. despite the name, it's super straightforward and it changed my life on a society-minded level the way art that hit me like suneater hit you changed my life on the personal level. keep it up. you're doing good stuff. 🌞
Absolutely agree about the impact finding the right story at the right time can do for You. Had known about Sun Eater for a while but didn't start reading it until last month. And when I did start, I binged through all of them and am currently reading Disquiet Gods. Picking up Sun Eater was was the best decision I made, reading-wise, this Year so far and I do have You to thank for that!
I read this series after your first empire of silence video and now howling dark and demon in white are some of my favourite books ever. This story brought me so much joy and pain all thanks to you Daniel! I knew I could count on you😂❤
As a Dresden Files fan, you're making it sound like this series will properly tickle my "Author tortures the main character because he cannot torture his readers" sense. Yay.
Hi Daniel! I'm a bookseller at a Narnes & Boble and several months ago when you first mentioned the Sun Eater books I looked the series up in the store's system, and for the most part they weren't available to be even ordered. At the time only the second book was available in mass market, the rest ebook only. Today after watching part of this video on my lunch break I looked up the series again and all 6 are now available in trade paperpack. I'm not exactly sure when they became available again but I 100% believe that your enthusiasm for the series (reviews, author interview, etc) is what drummed up interest for them to become available again, so I just wanted to say thank you, and I look forward to finishing this video after I've read them all!
Thank you so much for your vulnerability with this. The power of literature to resonate within us and to cement the lessons that we're going through in life is so powerful. So is your story and this resonated with me on such a deep level. Thank you for sharing this and for doing what you do
I haven't seen content from you in ages as my love for books and consequently my enjoyment of fantasy and sci fi in general waned , im glad this found me, this book seems like one I need to read at this Very moment in my life . Bless you Daniel 🙏🏻 definitely my favourite video I've seen of yours. Over the years we've grown fond of daniel the creator not just the content
I'm only reading this series because of you, Daniel. And. I. Love. It. Reaching the end of Demon In White right now and...wow. Thanks for bringing this series to my attention. I'm forever grateful!
I'm not gonna say "More of these kinds of reviews" because I don't think you can just, do that. Something has to really strike a chord for a review like this to mean it and not everything, no matter how much you enjoy it will strike those chords in that way at the right time. But what I will say is this is by far my favorite review I've seen from you and I've been following a long here and there for several years. I'm not a huge reader, never have been, I'm 43, almost 44, but you're videos have personally got me reading more books, specifically for the Fantasy, Sci Fi generas, than anything ever has. I enjoy your takes, and I enjoy your presentation Daniel, and I enjoyed me some Empire of Silence recently and certainly looking forward to moving further into this series. Cheers my man.
God damn that first 4 minute intro kinda has me sold on the series. Alright this is going to be my next series after Malazan (nearly done all of those books, well of the main series from each author).
You can get the book here and support local bookstores while doing so: bookshop.org/a/89948/9780756419264
wait, is this a spoiler review or not?
Hey Daniel,
Thank you for this. This was really humbling to listen to, I'm touched the books have meant so much to you (so far, I could still shoot myself in the foot here in the final act, of course), and grateful for the coverage. For what it's worth, your videos have done no shortage of good for the series, and for me.
Can't wait for the audiobook of Disquiet Gods I found your books in January and blitzed through them and they are amazing!
You da man Chris
hopefully your books get released in my country
Dude! It's so good! Thank you for creating it. I only came across the series via this channel this year and now I'm 68% through Disquiet Gods. You have done an amazing job
Daniel & Mike's Book Reviews are the reason I started, and I plan to read them all now.
This is honestly the best review you've done that I have seen. Thanks for both being so honest and real while doing an amazing job at selling this series. I am hoping to start this series soon!
Facts. This right here! I really connected with the personal growth aspect and your vulnerability. ❤️ Well done🤘 Can't wait to pick this up, just requested from my library. Cheers!
While I respect that the algorithm and therefore the money likes when you do short upbeat snippets, this is the type of review I really enjoy, personally. Thank you, Daniel.
Will. You. STOP!!!
I’m drowning under the weight of my “to-read” list.
He can't keep getting away with this
I understood that reference@@CanRotaryLife
*In the voice of Isildur* "No"
Suneater takes priority. The others can wait. Embrace the Sollan Empire
Glad I'm not the only one!
I lost my job recently, it was a career I had been building for the last 8 years or so. I'm in the throes of starting over and "reinventing" myself. I have found a strange solace in the Sun Eater saga. Even though it is fiction, I feel less alone and encouraged to keep pressing forward. Thank you Daniel for being so open with this video. And Thank you Ruocchio for this story that has given us so much more than we ever thought a book could.
Grief is deep water!
Always forward, always down, and never left or right.
Forward it is. ❤️🩹
I got into Sun Eater because of you and it is now one of my favorite series! I am truly in love with the series and I couldn’t thank you more for bringing this book into my life!
How many books it took you to say this?
@@manavsingh6145 Yeah, I'm at the end of the second book, and for me this has been a SLOG, this series takes a really long time to say nothing (I feel very little actually happens for such thick books), and I really don't jive with the repeating descriptions( Repeating a description you just gave in a flowery or more often pretensious manner).
I've started and stopped this series three times now, and only because Daniel speaks so highly of it, but if a book from a series I enjoy drops, a few of them have april releases, I'll probably be dropping it a fourth time.
Does this series gets better in the third installment or if I was going to like it I would've already??
@@manavsingh6145 I really enjoyed this book from the beginning tbh but I got heavily into it during the second and third book and when I knew I loved this series was the fourth book because it really made me feel emotions that not a lot of series can pull out of me, if it doesn’t jive with you though I understand it is a difficult series to get in to. I listen to the audiobooks as well which really help me because the voice actor is super good!
@@adilsoncaetano5684 the third is a lot of people’s favorites but I get it if this is a difficult series to get through I listen to the audiobooks as well so maybe try that because the voice actor is pretty good!
“Oh! That’s my taste done well!” is the most remarkably accurate statement about my relationship with this series. It’s the perfect blend of beautiful prose, character work, and batshit insane action.
It was really enjoyable to watch this, having read up to the first 30 pages of Disquiet Gods, knowing everything you reference. Also, this personal format was truly meaningful and resonated with me a great deal.
10/10 I love how you've styled this review. Not every book likely needs this treatment but the raw, emotional, and personal experience for how you've connected with this series really shows.
I'm really excited for the audiobook release for Disquiet Gods, and see where Hadrian's journey ends.
Continues, because DG isn’t the last book!
This is the my favourite video of yours I've seen. This more quiet attitude to stories that do take up space in your mind and impact you, this honest and patient structure to the video, this equal display of emotion and commentary just strikes me as a crucial and commendable progression and elevation in your content.
Thank you Daniel.
DG sitting around his house in nice little sweaters with keyboards and cats and just hanging while talking about the books is nice. It fits with with the more laid back and natural side of DG, he got that wild side too, but this gives off comfortable vibes and is a self aware change up that I dig.
You got me into the Jade series… it changed me. Now you’re getting me into this… let’s see what happens.
Those two series are my favorites of the last two years HAHA
Daniel got me into the Wheel of Time series.(Thank You for that) Tell me about Jade please 🙏
@@LeolaTheElfI think they are referencing Jade City by Fonda Lee, amazing book!!!
@@ryanbourbeau3078 thank you 🙏
Two brilliant series!!!
I love this different, more vulnerable style. Thank you for being so open with us.
Don't know if it was intentional or not, but nice move releasing a Sun Eater review on eclipse day ;)
I, for one, absolutely loved how enthusiastic you were about this series. The radiation of your joy discovering this, is clearly conveyed in your videos and passed on to the viewers :) Absolutely love to see that
Fantastic analysis. Christopher Ruocchio is my favorite living author, and I've already spent a fortune collecting hardcover Sun Eater books, something I've never had the urge to do for anyone else. Thank you for helping to shine a spotlight on this criminally under known masterpiece
But do you have the rare hardcover of empire of silence 🤔
@@callum7081 Yeah. I actually have two, as I bought one on eBay that turned out to not be in the best of shape, and one in great condition I won from a giveaway during one of Ruocchio’s livestreams.
My copy of How,isn’t Dark is unfortunately an ex-lib copy, but it doesn’t have a sticker on it, only a stamp across the top of all the pages.
@@callum7081 I have two actually. One in not great condition I bought from eBay, and a second one in excellent condition I won from a giveaway during one of Ruocchio's livestreams.
My HD copy is unfortunately an ex-lib copy, but it doesn't have a sticker, only a stamp across the top of the bound pages.
@@callum7081thats the praetor, if anyone he must have it (maybe severian too)
I am so ready to see what the Broken Binding does for this series!
Same!
Same here
Wait what?
@@MaxFidler Sexy Limited Editions
@@flywithty1 I didn’t see an announcement
The honesty and transparency in sharing your struggles, much like Christopher's writing, is a nice reminder of the human struggle and how much we can all relate to each other. Thank you for sharing.
this review is one of my favorite on the entire channel, the emotion, the raw and real love of these stories, I can feel it and now i am for sure gonna read sun eater!!
I will never get tired of you talking about sun eater. I love this series so much. It's my favorite sci-fi series. And listening to you talk about your love for this series gives me so much happiness. Thank you ✨
So great to see this. These books have set the bar so high for me that almost everything else falls short lately. I’ve shed tears many times in these books and they affected me deeply.
Daniel, your growth as a reviewer is truly inspiring. ❤
The first Sun Eater book is on my shelf on your recommendation. The Will of the Many is my favorite book of 2023 because your review inspired me to read it. Fear not, Daniel. You do not do a disservice to the community. You brighten it, add to it, introduce people to books they'd never have seen or heard of. Give yourself some grace, friend.
Side note: Sir, is that a knife?
I struggled to get through Way of Kings and thought I had lost my love of reading, but I binged all 6 Suneater books in less than two months. 😅
I struggled with Wok after reading Mistborn trilogy, but when i got to word of radiance, I could not put it down for a second 😂
@@Stygiophobicand then you get to Oathbringer and it just fucking sucks.
@@TheHi_King no it fucking doesn't
@@severjanlici that's cute but you are wrong. Oathbringer and ROW fucking suck dick haha
Please listen to the graphic audio versions of StormLight Archive. Most authors need to be given the benefit of the doubt and let them lay the groundwork through character development and world building. Once it does it is all worth it!
What Ruocchio has accomplished is just astounding. I'm nearing the halfway point of Disquiet Gods as I write this comment. I'm both excited and sad that this amazing series is almost over. Can't wait to see what his imagination conjures up next when Sun Eater is finished.
I'm 30 seconds in and I'll tell you now, you do a great job highlighting books, shows, games, etc. that you enjoy. We, as your audience, generally like the same things as you and follow you so that we can geek out and be excitable fans with one another. You have gotten me into reading (school really killed any interest I had) and put me on so many books that I want to read. Whatever fear you have as a reviewer know that we think you do a great job
I LOVE the format! The emotion resonating from you for sun eater is infectious
This series is phenomenal as is your review!
Thank you for being so open. A lot of us deal with these problems and need help to process certain experiences and emotions. Sun Eater is definitely on my tbr now.
I'm reading book 5 right now. Book 4 was so intense and left me so shaken, I needed to to read a couple other things in between to reset my emotions.
This series is so good, and I discovered it because of you. Now I need to share this series with everyone!
Great work man. Amazing to see Art work on someone. So special!
Just finished howling dark and all the praise in this video is deserved sun eater is awesome. The only downside is it will ruin modern mainstream sci-fi like Star Wars by showing you how shallow it has become in comparison.
This is my favorite video of yours. The sincerity is clear and appreciated, production is wonderful, and has some of your best quotable phrases. Great work Daniel!
Disquiet Gods really did hit well didn’t it Daniel? I’ll always thank you and other TH-camrs for literally saving this series. If it’d had died after Ashes of Man, which seemed possible, I’d have been crushed.
Really enjoyed this style of video, especially changing up the settings. Great stuff Daniel!
I know how you feel, Sun Eater really has connected with me as well, albeit for different reasons. Everyone's life tunnel is different, but some of what you're saying about flaws resonates quite strongly.
Respect the video Daniel.
Yo, I've been writing novels in your comments section for many years now, as you no doubt know, so I've seen your progression over time. We have been on a similar - if not identical - journey of recovering from trauma. I'm glad you are open about yours.
Suneater has not done as much for me as it has for you because I'm clear-eyed about my flaws, and one of the biggest has to do with not repressing emotions learning how to say no to narcissists who want me to do things I'm uncomfortable with, but have done due to a history of traumatic experiences. Hadrian Marlowe - at least at the point I've read - reflects so many of the character traits of narcissists I've had to cut out of my life so being in his headspace has been thoroughly exhausting. I don't particularly enjoy being exhausted by main characters. however, there is enough interesting stuff going on that I'm still reading. I'm enjoying Demon in White, so far, much more than the previous books.
With that said, I have been moved by your enthusiasm for the series, because I've seen the dip in your enthusiasm over time and I do get the nostalgia for a time when you just enjoyed reading books and wanted to talk about it and even though I have a barometer for where our tastes intersect and diverge, I trust you as a critic so I've given it a go and I'll probably get to Disquiet Gods later this year.
I'm glad to see you are doing better, and enjoying life again. It feels nice to feel, after a long period of numbness.
Be well.
P.S. I'm really looking forward to a potential Book of the New Sun review, although it is unlikely to have the same impact on you as Suneater does for a LOT of reasons.
This is so real and so from the heart. This is just a fantastic review and a great conversation about an amazing work of art.
I appreciate this different kind of in-depth review. When a story can take you beyond the structure and truly impact you, it needs to be talked about.
One of the many reasons I love your channel are videos like this, and now Suneater is on my list to read. I will blame you!😂
Thank you for being vulnerable. I hadn't been interested in The Sun Eater series until you talked about this. I'm going through it right now too and I'd like to read something where the hero is getting through it too.
Sun eater is absolutely goated, I can’t remember the last time when I was reading a series, all I could think about, during work and school was getting home to read more.
Sending you love and appreciation for your honesty! Your heart is your greatest strength, and the best gift you can offer your community. 💙🙏🌞
I appreciate that you took the time, and had the courage, to do this! That said, you and Talking Story have convinced me. I'm going to start this series. I already ordered a couple of the books. I haven't read space opera in a very long time but hopefully I'll be happy I returned!
2 months later.
I stopped at min 3 when this video first came out and immediately started on the series.
Thank you very very very much for that. I enjoyed this series beyond words.
Thank you helping me find a new addition to my favorites series ever.
Fantastic review! Gets me even more excited to continue on into the series
I personally crave for more reviews like this-raw and personal.
I find the youtube performance grating and it irks me that youtube has all gone down the mr. Beast, overacted and overhyped personality route.
I like humans, not performances. This video was one of the most enjoyable you’ve done in a long while.
I love suneater and can’t wait to go on with the series.
I’m glad you are back to this style of review, thank you for sharing your personal experience with the series.
Thanks for being so personal with this review. Important to talk about. I definitely think books can have a greater impact when they are read at the right time emotionally.
Love the take, keep doing what ur doin. I found this book a few years back from Mike’s Book Reviews, and it’s impact has been profound.
I’m so glad I donated that 10 dollars all those months ago begging you to review EoS (I had a TINY part to do with getting him to read it)
I have been reading this series since 2018 and you hit the nail on the head with how this series had made me feel, I remember joining you discord maybe late 2018 early 2019 and mentioning/posting the first and second book. I’m happy to see that you were able to get around to reading them, you will not be disappointed with Disquiet Gods, Hadrian has more horrors to endure.
Thanks for sharing this with us. If you were wondering if this different approach worked, 10/10 I loved it. You really made it obvious that this is special.
I just finished "Empire of Silence" mostly because of this video, and it was incredible!! Such a great rec for this Dune and Name of the Wind fan.
Thank you sir for letting us in and thank you for the appreciation you are showing this series.
You got me into Sun Eater last year and I love it! Need to finish DG. This and stormlight have become two of my favorite series thanks to you!
Incredible review, remember the guy down the hallway talking about things he likes ? This Is him
i goota say this is one of the best goblin vidoes ive seen in a while i can feel the how well thought out it was
Dude, you brought First Law into my life years ago and it changed my life and turned me into a book reader, and now sun eater has been the first series since that has matched that feeling of having my interests met, EOS was incredible to read I ADORE how it feels like the book has been written by Hadrian it feels so immersive and I love how Hadrian voices things, his melodrama is intoxicating ❤ endlessly fascinated by his journey just getting to the last quarter of Howling Dark
Thanks for brining my attention to this series. I am currently reading "Demon in White", by now I am hooked. The first 2 books were enjoyable (like a backstory for a DnD character), after that I could not stop to read. And I love the worldbuilding, ist amazing. I hope you are doing all right, I wish you all the best and I hope you'll keep getting better.
stuck on ashes of man but excited for the next arc of the saga. thank you for the stellar reviews + reccs. glad you're doing better since last year :)
sometimes I wish I didn't listen to the audiobook so I could really sit with the concepts and ideas concretely, in writing like hieroglyphs etched onto limestone. especially for sun eater I had to pause a bit every so often, and the silence and not silence of the world we reside in would flood the world Ruocchio imagined, existing and not existing within the confines of imagination built through lived and unlived experience. drowning, it made me appreciate every breath.
Hadrian having his heart ripped out in book one by what narrator-Hadrian says is one of the most important people in his life made me die a little inside. im excited to read book two now because of your recommendation of this series
Thank you for guiding me to this incredible series and author. They are destined to become modern classics and I believe you have had a real impact in raising awareness of it. Something to be proud of.
Also the knife microphone was particularly stressful in this video
This is my favourite video you have ever done. The change in environment, format , and your delivery really fit .
Thank you for recommending this book. I just made it to book 5 and it's probably my favorite story so far. But I'm also new to reading with only one years time and being dyslexic I hope to fine more stories that are as good as this one.
Sun Eater is something special. There’s a reason the grass roots campaign has paid off for it (which is a lot more rare than you would think, most everything that makes it to the surface is astroturf by some financial backing) because it’s the real deal. People are taking about it because it’s fantastic.
Love the deconstruction of Sun Eater. I have loved this series since Eos was first released. Glad it is getting the attention it deserves. Well done.
I really enjoyed this format and approach to the series review.
This is your best video. Highly appreciated it.
That intro you did about finding art at the right moment - that was beautifully put. Synchronicity. I know exactly what that feels like
The return of the knife / mic combo, w00p w00p lol
I love these books SO much. I have read them twice now and only read them after your review of EoS. I could drown in the lore. These have made a huge impact on me to the WoT level, and I have not felt that way in 20+ years.
I wish I didn't have to wait until the audiobook 😭 Sun Eater is so good. So glad I picked it up after your first review. I blasted through it
Bravo!! I actually have had a very similar personal experience with Sun Eater, and I can so identify with what you said about the thrill of finding that series and author who seem to get you specifically as a person and reader. Always forward, always down!
Didn't hesitate to start reading this series after about 2 minutes of you talking about it and I am so glad I blindly trusted you. Such a good series.
Wow Daniel! This was a 10/10. I want to give you a hug and a huge high five. These books are blowing my mind. I love how you can zoom out and see what's going on in a character and narrative. You're great at what you do and thanks for still doing it.
Thanks for this Daniel I feel like I'm also in a big turning point in my life and seeing your videos continues to keep me going. I love reading and your videos and recommendations keep me on my toes. Great stuff Goblin!
Thank you for the hard work and overcoming the struggle to keep the channel going .
Mad 😂😂😂 and grateful You got me into Malazan the struggle totally worth it
Excellent review for an excellent series. Well done, Daniel!
Wow. Best review of yours. You inspire me. Thank you, Daniel.
i love that you identified deconstruction and reconstruction as the core process that you both related to and went through. as someone who's also had to confront both personal wrongs and privilege and rebuild my life after hurting and alienating people i love, I've come to realize that process is core to accountability and improvement at every level. it's praxis: you have to contextualize your behavior, reflect on it, learn new ideas, try them, rinse and repeat. and grene fiction has always been a really useful tool for people to explore these concepts and try on new perspectives that can help us think and act in more humane and pragmatic ways.
all this to say that I'm so glad that you're doing well and doing the work, that you've found your way into your own version of this process and are now finding a way to share it with others.
i know you're not a non fiction guy, but i think you would get a lot out of pedagogy of the oppressed. despite the name, it's super straightforward and it changed my life on a society-minded level the way art that hit me like suneater hit you changed my life on the personal level.
keep it up. you're doing good stuff. 🌞
Daniel, man! This review is something! I’ve enjoyed every second of it. So personal, so special! Thanks for it, keep going and wow, that was a thing!
I love the serious tone and how this book hit you right in the right place in your life.
In my opinion, this is the perfect vibe for a video essay/analysis. If not for most videos, at least keep this style for series analysis videos.
I'm sold on reading the first book. It's near the top of my TBR.
Absolutely agree about the impact finding the right story at the right time can do for You. Had known about Sun Eater for a while but didn't start reading it until last month. And when I did start, I binged through all of them and am currently reading Disquiet Gods. Picking up Sun Eater was was the best decision I made, reading-wise, this Year so far and I do have You to thank for that!
You do a great job with your thoughts here. Nice to see you enjoy a series and bring it to people. I’m biased but I like to see it.
That smear on the wall made me think I had a scratch on my screen for 10 good minutes.
Sorry! Haha slipped when putting that shelf up.
same. Its unwatchable. Please rerecord the whole video. Preferably without the smear.
OMG! Same! I thought I was the only one. Lol.
I read this series after your first empire of silence video and now howling dark and demon in white are some of my favourite books ever. This story brought me so much joy and pain all thanks to you Daniel! I knew I could count on you😂❤
As a Dresden Files fan, you're making it sound like this series will properly tickle my "Author tortures the main character because he cannot torture his readers" sense.
Yay.
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I haven’t read the series yet but now I’m going to. This is the best video you’ve made in awhile (excluding Fringe)
You're a good dude, Daniel Greene. It takes guts to talk about stuff like this. This was a good review.
Possibly one of your best videos yet
Hi Daniel! I'm a bookseller at a Narnes & Boble and several months ago when you first mentioned the Sun Eater books I looked the series up in the store's system, and for the most part they weren't available to be even ordered. At the time only the second book was available in mass market, the rest ebook only. Today after watching part of this video on my lunch break I looked up the series again and all 6 are now available in trade paperpack. I'm not exactly sure when they became available again but I 100% believe that your enthusiasm for the series (reviews, author interview, etc) is what drummed up interest for them to become available again, so I just wanted to say thank you, and I look forward to finishing this video after I've read them all!
(Only stopped when I realized you were going to be talking about, even vaguely, things that happen beyond book 1)
Thank you so much for your vulnerability with this. The power of literature to resonate within us and to cement the lessons that we're going through in life is so powerful. So is your story and this resonated with me on such a deep level. Thank you for sharing this and for doing what you do
I haven't seen content from you in ages as my love for books and consequently my enjoyment of fantasy and sci fi in general waned , im glad this found me, this book seems like one I need to read at this Very moment in my life . Bless you Daniel 🙏🏻 definitely my favourite video I've seen of yours. Over the years we've grown fond of daniel the creator not just the content
I'm only reading this series because of you, Daniel. And. I. Love. It. Reaching the end of Demon In White right now and...wow. Thanks for bringing this series to my attention. I'm forever grateful!
I'm not gonna say "More of these kinds of reviews" because I don't think you can just, do that. Something has to really strike a chord for a review like this to mean it and not everything, no matter how much you enjoy it will strike those chords in that way at the right time. But what I will say is this is by far my favorite review I've seen from you and I've been following a long here and there for several years. I'm not a huge reader, never have been, I'm 43, almost 44, but you're videos have personally got me reading more books, specifically for the Fantasy, Sci Fi generas, than anything ever has. I enjoy your takes, and I enjoy your presentation Daniel, and I enjoyed me some Empire of Silence recently and certainly looking forward to moving further into this series. Cheers my man.
God damn that first 4 minute intro kinda has me sold on the series. Alright this is going to be my next series after Malazan (nearly done all of those books, well of the main series from each author).
SunEater showing off as the new Star Wars ;)