Man! This took me forever to finish. Busy year with the family and work coupled with it not being quite the page turner Hyperion is, and voila: destruction of my reading numbers.

I enjoyed this story. I enjoyed it a lot. It is NOT at the same pace as the first. It’s slow and sometimes drawn out. BUT, the story is great. I was pleasantly surprised a few times, even.

There’s a change in the writing about two-thirds of the way in. It’s almost imperceptible but I’d swear it’s there. It’s like someone else started helping with the writing. Or Simmons went through some life experience that changed him a little, maybe. I don’t know how to explain it, but I felt it.

I won’t be tackling the last two books right away. I need to catch up on some other books. I will be getting to them eventually for sure. I look forward to seeing how the Cantos plays out.