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witchstack's Reviews (129)

Hopeful for the kind of payoff Book 2 had, I thought I might be able to power through this one despite the relationship ick between Raul and Aenea, but when a 16-year-old girl kisses the 32-year-old man who helped raise her and he doesnt recoil in horror... I found myself making a list of reasons that would make reading this one worth... that. But it appears that this book is a step down in multiple areas: the writing appears longwinded and a bit aimless in parts; Raul went from being (loveably?) dumb in Endymion to petulant and childish in this book; Father de Soya, who I didn't exactly care for before, seems pulled into the story again merely as a plot device.

I made the decision to look at comments and reviews and my fears were not alleviated. The ill omen of an extended sex scene in chapter 27 plus more sex throughout, the retconning I've noticed and the promise of more, just how uninterested I am in the horror of Space Catholicism, the sheer length of the book...

I don't want The Rise of Endymion to mar my memory of Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion any more than it already has.