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enderst 's review for:
The Rise of Endymion
by Dan Simmons
As with all series this is both a review of the last book and the series as a whole.
Book 3.5 stars.
The action was good. The ending was :/ ?fine? It ended a book that ended a series that I mostly liked. I didn’t think it was amazing. This book went back to the roots of “The Fall of Hyperion” and offered more questions than it answered. I liked the philosophy and poetry of the first book and a little bit the later books. This one delved much more into religion and it didn’t work at all with me. I found it to either be boring or irritating.
Series 3.5 stars
This series probably suffers from expectations. I had it on my radar to read for decades. When I first heard about it I also read quite a bit more scifi than I do these days.
I enjoyed the series while also feeling more frustration out of books than I’m looking for. Each book was interesting enough to make me continue to the next one.
Book one was really great for the actual way the book was written. I liked the roughly connected, but quite different, stories. I hated nearly every character in the book, but the format kept me going.
Book two was closer to what I expected when I first heard of the story. I liked that it was an epic scifi; and the action was fun. It was too sprawling, it offered a lot of questions that I didn’t have enough interested in without the answer, the book, too often, didn’t give those answers.
Book three was a fresh start. The characters significantly more likable. The action good enough, the story held my attention and made me want to finish it.
All that being said, the story was good, books 1 and 3 were good independent of other problems. The series is worth a read because the mythos is interested, the story is well enough told, the philosophy was in general better than a lot of “Philosophy in Space” 60-80’s scifi suffers from.
Book 3.5 stars.
The action was good. The ending was :/ ?fine? It ended a book that ended a series that I mostly liked. I didn’t think it was amazing. This book went back to the roots of “The Fall of Hyperion” and offered more questions than it answered. I liked the philosophy and poetry of the first book and a little bit the later books. This one delved much more into religion and it didn’t work at all with me. I found it to either be boring or irritating.
Series 3.5 stars
This series probably suffers from expectations. I had it on my radar to read for decades. When I first heard about it I also read quite a bit more scifi than I do these days.
I enjoyed the series while also feeling more frustration out of books than I’m looking for. Each book was interesting enough to make me continue to the next one.
Book one was really great for the actual way the book was written. I liked the roughly connected, but quite different, stories. I hated nearly every character in the book, but the format kept me going.
Book two was closer to what I expected when I first heard of the story. I liked that it was an epic scifi; and the action was fun. It was too sprawling, it offered a lot of questions that I didn’t have enough interested in without the answer, the book, too often, didn’t give those answers.
Book three was a fresh start. The characters significantly more likable. The action good enough, the story held my attention and made me want to finish it.
All that being said, the story was good, books 1 and 3 were good independent of other problems. The series is worth a read because the mythos is interested, the story is well enough told, the philosophy was in general better than a lot of “Philosophy in Space” 60-80’s scifi suffers from.