moverton's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
informative
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
sweekune's review against another edition
adventurous
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
4.75/5
Audiobook narrated by Bruno Roubicek.
A fantastic end to a long, detailed and well thought-out trilogy. In Death's End, we follow Cheng Xin through a series of twists and turns in her career and life. Cheng Xin is gifted a star by a terminally ill college friend and this sparks off a series of events that dramatically the human race.
- As with the previous books, everything is extremely detailed in this book. When I first started the series, I was a bit bemused by this and found it unnecessary but now I feel like the small details provide an excellent sense of place, time and culture. The world building is on a truly universal scale.
- The technology and changes over Cheng Xin's lifetime were truly incredible and I love how well explained they were and the wonder and horror various technologies added to the story.
- The book covers such a huge span of events that sometimes it's hard to believe events happened in the same book. There are lots of parts I thoroughly enjoyed but I think my favourite would be the Fairy Tales section for the mystery and tension they added.
For those who enjoy immense world-building, hard sci-fi with twists and turns and stories on a galactic scale, I would highly recommend this trilogy.
Audiobook narrated by Bruno Roubicek.
A fantastic end to a long, detailed and well thought-out trilogy. In Death's End, we follow Cheng Xin through a series of twists and turns in her career and life. Cheng Xin is gifted a star by a terminally ill college friend and this sparks off a series of events that dramatically the human race.
- As with the previous books, everything is extremely detailed in this book. When I first started the series, I was a bit bemused by this and found it unnecessary but now I feel like the small details provide an excellent sense of place, time and culture. The world building is on a truly universal scale.
- The technology and changes over Cheng Xin's lifetime were truly incredible and I love how well explained they were and the wonder and horror various technologies added to the story.
- The book covers such a huge span of events that sometimes it's hard to believe events happened in the same book. There are lots of parts I thoroughly enjoyed but I think my favourite would be the Fairy Tales section for the mystery and tension they added.
For those who enjoy immense world-building, hard sci-fi with twists and turns and stories on a galactic scale, I would highly recommend this trilogy.
uberguuy's review against another edition
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
roemer37's review against another edition
5.0
i don’t have a lot of time right now to work on a review, maybe i’ll come back to it. but i just want to say that this book (this trilogy too) is a marvel. the way cixin liu ends his saga with another jump in scale, plot, science, philosophy and cosmic sociology is incredible. i am so so so grateful that these books have been translated (and that two of them were translated by ken liu my best friend) and so grateful to the person who introduced me to them. you know who you are
depwy59u's review against another edition
challenging
dark
hopeful
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
skinnercolin221's review against another edition
4.0
"Death's End" wraps up the series with some deeply philosophical ideas that were impactful on a personal level. The book is at its best when it sticks to the main story and at its worst when it goes on and on about side plots/scientific exposition.
mrlmnop's review against another edition
4.0
The third and final book of the Three Body Problem series. I enjoyed it quite a bit, and it was a fitting end to the series. These books have been very different from the science fiction I'm used to reading, and I'm excited to read [a:Ken Liu|2917920|Ken Liu|https://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1400610835p2/2917920.jpg]'s upcoming collection of Chinese sci-fi, [b:Invisible Planets: An Anthology of Contemporary Chinese SF in Translation|28220730|Invisible Planets An Anthology of Contemporary Chinese SF in Translation|Ken Liu|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1463570833s/28220730.jpg|48249401]
overland's review against another edition
5.0
A statement that there are worth things than death. Destryoing the character of the species would have been worse. Making us just like Singer's society - existence without joy.
Thomas Wade might have been able to save the species. He might have also destroyed it. Throughout most of the book, I thought that Cheng Xin was making the wrong choices. Maybe sometimes she was, but she was representing the part of us that lets us feel love, or joy, or anything beyond pure survival that makes survival worth achieving. Cheng Xin represented humanity's humanity, and sometimes the consequences threatened all human life.
Thomas Wade might have been able to save the species. He might have also destroyed it. Throughout most of the book, I thought that Cheng Xin was making the wrong choices. Maybe sometimes she was, but she was representing the part of us that lets us feel love, or joy, or anything beyond pure survival that makes survival worth achieving. Cheng Xin represented humanity's humanity, and sometimes the consequences threatened all human life.
loz_reads11's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
mysterious
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.25
ferris_mx's review against another edition
1.0
Very interesting treatment, very thought provoking. Would have been four stars. I removed one star for each of two incidents of gratuitous gender reductionism - the period of time when men and women adopted female presentation and were too soft to make hard decisions, and when that was reiterated later. And another star gone for gratuitous discussion of an autistic person being trapped in an incel's world (approximately).