A review by juliasilge
Ilium by Dan Simmons

4.0

What a fantastic mashup of Homer, Proust, and Shakespeare in a scifi epic! I loved Dan Simmon's Hyperion saga and was a bit surprised to see people saying this was better, but after just reading the climactic ending, I can see their point. This book goes with the whole multiple-story-lines thing and it works well. The most sympathetic and "human" characters in the whole thing are the robots, which is witty and delightful. I shall now be off to read the conclusion to this two-book series!