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While the book started very promising, had fun characters and was written with Ilya Gort's great imagination, lighthearted humor and cadence that keeps you engaged, the story, mistakes and plotholes got worse with every page and left me confused and unsatisfied, like Gort was in a rush to finish the book. It's close to insulting and I feel robbed of my time. Furthermore only a few chapters were more than 3 pages long, the font size was comically large and every chapter was followed by a blank page. In short: this story could have been an email and the wasted paper and bait and switch put me off from ever wanting to buy another book from Gort. The only redeeming quakity of this book, and why I chose to give it a 1,5 and not a 1, is Ilya's humorous and engaging writing style.

Incredibly boring and one of the few books I have ever DNF'd

Such a great book. I went into this expecting to be slightly disappointed because I've read comments online about how vastly different Endymion is compared to the Hyperion books.

Sure, it's different but it's also the same. The story takes place about 250 years after the events on Hyperion have taken place and many events from that era have been forgotten and rewritten by the current, theocratic rulers of the galaxy. These historical events are sprinkled throughout the book and used as reminders to readers and discovery to the main characters.

The pacing of this book is great, the writing is vivid and the end of every chapter invites you to keep on reading. The book is written from the perspective of the 2 main characters, protagonist and antagonist, and about every other chapter switches the viewpoint from one towards the other.

The book was released in 1996 and hardly ever feels dated, which (considering our current pace of technological advancement) is very impressive. The worldbuilding is just superb. I would recommend this book to anyone that loves sci-fi.