Olympos

By: Dan Simmons

Narrated by: Kevin Pariseau

Beneath the gaze of the gods, the mighty armies of Greece and Troy met in fierce and glorious combat, scrupulously following the text set forth in Homer's timeless narrative. But that was before 21st-century scholar Thomas Hockenberry stirred the bloody brew, causing an enraged Achilles to join forces with his archenemy, Hector, and turn his murderous wrath on Zeus and the entire pantheon of divine manipulators; before the swift and terrible mechanical creatures that catered for centuries to the pitiful idle remnants of Earth's human race began massing in the millions, to exterminate rather than serve.

And now all bets are off.

©2005 Dan Simmons (P)2014 Audible Inc.

Just throwing everything on the page…

…and hoping some will stick. So many subplots, a rape-ish scene for no good reason, characters made solely for the purpose of allowing the author to write bad poetry…

An epic story

This sequel follows the same formula as the first book. It is long and Simmons loves to say the names of Greeks, but he is following Homer’s lead. This series was not as good as the Hyperion books, but I happily finished it. If you like Simmons, you will like this book.

Good first half, terrible ending

For about 70% of the book. it's leading up to what should be a fantastic, epic conclusion. But then, nothing. Multiple storylines are just dropped off. And the storylines that are wrapped up are wrapped up in a very unsatisfying way.

anticlimactic

an overall good story, the ending is underwhelming and feels like a literary version of Monty Python's The Holy Grail, as if a deadline or exceeded budget was driving the plot.

character development

What I enjoyed the most was the anticipation after every chapter. Although on a dislike note; the ending was a bit anticlimactic.