So this is a weird one to review as its a collection of short stories from a series.

There were a couple of good stories but the rest were pretty lackluster and didn't really add anything to my understanding of the Sun Eater world. The stories involving Hadrian were pretty good, the other stories with random people weren't all that interesting.

I don't know the reason Ruocchio wrote these or if he gave any reasons, but I believe these were writing exercises for him, as I noticed some writing differences.

I don't think this book is worth buying, if you're big into Sun Eater and read all the books and wanna return to Ruocchio's world while waiting for the next book to release, maybe read this 🤷‍♂️