hikachi's review

5.0

Not to self, do not read any book about war while doing war yourself.
Been a busy month with work and chaining at this game a play. Thus, constantly had to put this to a halt.

I found these last chapters to be sad, as the great heroes all die off, their dreams unfulfilled, and nobility turns into corruption.

Then the last lines circle back to the first lines and I found it quite poignant.

zmb's review

3.0

This last third moves a lot faster than the first two thirds, which is mostly okay, because the most interesting characters of the first two thirds finally start to die off. After the death of Zhuge Liang in particular the pace speeds up considerably, culminating in the long foreseen deposition of the Caos by the Simas and the speedy conquest of the other two kingdoms by the new state of Jin in just a few short chapters.