Reviews

The Rise of Endymion by Dan Simmons

stijn's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

mquinlan's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

I’m going to die 

mellamoger's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.25

brett's review against another edition

4.0

4.5

talkiejared's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

sashucity's review against another edition

4.0

Grand (but far from great) finale of the most important sci-fi series of the last century.

Dan Simmons had a lot opened questions from first 2 books, so he wrote 2 new books to answer on a lot of them. The problem is Endymion dilogy lacks of logic, and it leads to a huge amount of new questions.

I enjoyed this book and can advise it to all space opera fans, but prepare to the fact Dan Simmons can use 10 pages for some totally unneeded information.

hamvocke's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring mysterious sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

mmmbecs's review against another edition

adventurous dark slow-paced

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship

msharris11's review against another edition

4.0

As with anything of this magnitude, my mere summary or ‘review’ seems to pale in comparison. But I’ll do my best. I must say, I loved the themes, plot, and epic space opera put together by Mr. Simmons here. I feel as if this certainly is deserving of a five due to its sheer complexity and wonderful galaxy building. Without spoiling anything, I found myself to be incredibly satisfied with this final book. As with the previous book, however, I found the middle ‘act’ (if you will) to be a bit of a haul to get through. But man oh man is the payoff there. Ultimately, a more concise middle would make this perfect for me. I can’t blame Dan for not wanting it to end, though—neither did I.

So long, shrike. Goodbye, Hyperion. Thanks for the ride.

4/5 (and 4/5 for the series as a whole) (bonus thought: Dune > Hyperion)

lexalynn's review against another edition

2.0

This was so hard to get through and really not worth it to me in the end. I feel like this book just cheapens everything that was in the first two books, which I had liked a lot! Raul is insufferable and everything was honestly really boring. The concepts are still kind of cool and it was mildly entertaining at times hence the 2, not 1 star rating.