A review by gdomecus33
The Rise of Endymion by Dan Simmons

2.0

Brutal ending to a great series. I found raul to be incredibly annoying and boring. Very unconvincing love story for a book who tries to argue that love is a universal energy force was quite disappointing. Tons of unnecessary info/characters that just muddled up the plot and took time away from good characters like de soya. I always hate the fake-out death and although this technically doesnt count as a real fake out in practice it 100% is and ruins a lot of the ending scene. The shrike is reduced from the cool mythical being of the first books to an ex machina anytime the plot needs it. My list of frustrations could go on for a while. I’ll give it a 2.5 since there were some interesting themes/characters/scenes sprinkled amongst the mix but my god are they few and far between in this book. Also they did my boy A. Bettik a disservice in this book.