babybluereads_ 's review for:

The Rise of Endymion by Dan Simmons

2.0

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There is a lot that I could say about the two Endymion books and the way they are making me rethink how I felt about the Hyperion novels. So much of the dynamic between Aenea and Raul was "Oh I'll tell you later" and then never tell him and make him figure it out on his own which is probably why this book was so long because while he can memorize every poem he's ever heard he is incredibly obtuse.

Additionally Hyperion had mysteries that were fun and some of them had open endings, the need to tie up those ends in these two books fell very flat to me.

Spoiler

The stories of Rachel, Het Masseen, and Kassad I found to be frustrating to read in this series and did not like how they changed what we were able to interpret from the original text.