This is one of the easiest if not the easiest 5 star rating I have given to any book ever. Whereas I do love the Sun Eater series there was almost always some small thing that bothered me in almost any of the books. Be it the (perceived) pacing issues of Ashes of Man, the insane bleakness of Kingdoms of Death, the rough beginning of The Howling Dark or the distinct lack of plot in Empire of Silence. There was always a little something that made me not wanna give the books a perfect score of 5 stars. Aside from Demon in White which was my favorite so far but I feel like Disquiet Gods trumps it pretty handily.

Disquiet Gods had me hooked and invested pretty much from page 1 onward and it didn’t let off. The pacing is just simply superb. 

This book gives us the biggest time jump out of any in between the novels and a lot has changed for our protagonist Hadrian. He’s pretty much an old man at this point but gets called back to duty one more time. And yeah callbacks are a big part of this book as a lot of what has transpired in the earlier novels gets brought up again, gets tied together beautifully and we get a ton of cool reveals. 

Also the way the narrative plot shifts a lot is quite baffling and leaves you absolutely stunned at certain points. I guess the theme of this book is just “expect the unexpected” because that’s what’s probably going to happen! 

I think I have found my new favorite book of the year and I can’t wait to see what Cristopher Ruocchio will do with the concluding book of this epic series.