After The Boy loaned me “Killer Takes All” and I said it was fun, but easy and a fast read, he handed over to me the Hyperion series. Being that there is only one new Emberverse book I haven’t read and the next one is set to come out by the end of the year, I gave Hyperion a chance.

First off, I should have never said Killer takes all is an easy read, it made The Boy want to give me something more challenging, and Boy, Hyperion fit the bill.

Right now I have only finished the first book out of four, which could only be described as the beginning of the end. Hyperion focuses on 6 stories, which have everything to do with the next installment, when they will try and defeat The Shrike, a god that doesn’t seem to be very kind AT ALL.

The interesting thing is that Dan Simmons, the writer, takes it very seirously when he’s telling each of the characters’ stories. He gives them different shapes and forms and details that they completely seem to be as if they were being told by 6 different “real” people.

All six stories are interesting in their own right, however, probably the two most impacting for me would be “The Man Who Cried God” and “The RiverLethe’s Taste is Bitter” I would like to leave it to whoever comes into my blog, to go and find at least a small summary on them, and maybe feel a bit enticed into beginning this collection.

Me? My next book is 1984, which I’m currently reading, and after that, I will go back to the Hyperion universe and se what happens there.