Endymion

I read Hyperion and the Fall of Hyperion a few years ago, and was a bit worried that I'd need to have them fresh in my mind going into this one. The events of the previous books are referenced quite a bit, but this book also takes place around 200 years later, so it sort of makes sense for me to only remember the original story in broad strokes.

It has the quality of, appropriately, epic poetry, due to its complicated setting, and very deliberate story beats (which also make it feel a bit like a fairy tale). If I have a criticism of the writing technically it's that sometimes the description felt overly detailed (I do prefer this to books which don't explain what's happening enough).

There's some stuff which felt Questionable. I think I want to read the next (and final) book before making up my mind on how I feel about that, though. Overall I had a good time reading it.

It was okay - not as good as the first two books, but better than most modern SF I've read in the past decade.
Between The Fall of Hyperion and Endymion, the Consul died in mysterious circumstances and his ship returned to Hyperion to be guarded by A Bettik and the poet Martin Silenus. The One Who Teaches was born, and stepped into the Sphinx time tomb to come out nearly 300 years later.
This book begins shortly before she returns from the Sphinx, and is about the android Bettik's and Raul Endymion's attempt to protect Aenea, the One Who Teaches, and their trip through the supposedly deactivated farcasters on the old River Tethys. They are being hunted by the church, who have used the parasitic cruiforms discovered in Hyperion, to achieve resurrection in life, and who have rewritten history to blame the Ousters for the destruction of the former Hegemony (when it was actually elements of the TechnoCore who did that).
The book feels padded. Some phrases are repeated more times than is comfortable (eg "parade rest"). The sense of the future is spoiled by such details as dress - Aenea is described as wearing clothes that sound very 20th Century.
This would probably make a good TV miniseries.