{"version":"1.0","type":"link","provider_name":"Hardcover","provider_url":"https://hardcover.app","cache_age":86400,"title":"Ruben's review of Hyperion","url":"https://hardcover.app/books/hyperion/reviews/@rubenmay1","author_name":"Ruben","author_url":"https://hardcover.app/@rubenmay1","description":"\u0026lt;p\u0026gt;Incredible world building and story telling. It felt at times like reading pure poetry with the sentence composition. The descriptions of locations and future technology awed me at times, and I actively savoured it on occasions.\u0026lt;br /\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br /\u0026gt;The narrative had good pacing, with the sense we were always building to the final showdown. The individual tales from the Pilgrims fleshed out the characters and provided reasoning behind their actions (except Silenus, he is just a dick). The story of Sol was just tragic and made me really root for him and Rachel.\u0026lt;br /\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br /\u0026gt;I remember seeing this novel in pride of place on the bookshelf of my Grandfather when I was a child. I always thought it would be written in a distant, incomprehensible, grown-up language that I would never be able to understand. Now I wish I had read this earlier in my life so I could have discussed this with him.\u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;","thumbnail_url":"https://assets.hardcover.app/edition/30428122/3c2f0e295e374546dcee4d94bd25197589d8484a.jpeg","thumbnail_width":326,"thumbnail_height":500}