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This final installment is increasingly dark, disturbing, tense, and pessimistic, taking you on a wild ride.

I think Liu partially redeemed the lack of developed female characters in the second novel by having the main character and a secondary character be women.

However, I think the author has some odd notions about femininity that are expressed throughout the novel. Obviously it was translated and Eastern and Western cultures have different broad views.

But like describing the men looking exactly like women in the peacetime era and them being weak. Going on and on about Cheng Xin being motherly and loving and this makes her weak

Loved the weird stuff.
Explored some very interesting concepts.

A book structure spoiler:

This book has multiple shorter chapters. Found it a lot easier to re-read parts/ more natural stopping points. Didn't get lost in where I was in the audiobook at all! I was super engrossed in the book for the first 2/3s however I thought the pacing fell off a bit towards the end.

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Still thinking about the end. Very wtf. Cheng missing Yun Tianming by 18 million years wtf. And then her living in a little mini universe with a random man?? What.
I enjoyed the friendship between Ai AA and Cheng but wished it were more developed.
Loved that Luo Ji came back and his character development. Feels weird because the novel is pretty long and meanders a lot but then at the end it feels a bit rushed. I was hoping to see more about 4d space, Yun's time with the Trisolarians/ how he got a body, what did he and Ai do for the rest of their lives etc

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adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No

4.0

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apersonfromflorida's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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adventurous challenging dark emotional informative inspiring mysterious fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

This book made me feel grateful to be alive and to enjoy the beauty around me and the the company of my loved ones. Also some kickass science and crazy scifi twists. Loved it.

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bigofheartdumbofass's review against another edition

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challenging dark sad medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Would be a 5 if the author didn't equate femininity with infantilization a bunch of times. Instalove is used but for whatever reason I was able to get emotionally attached to the characters anyway. The xenosociological concept of the dark forest is dour. However I really enjoyed the physics and science discussion. Really really enjoyed (especially the theoretical discussion within) the last 50 pages or so. The concept of the solar system

being transformed into 2 dimensions

is viscerally horrifying in a way other similar concepts of cosmological

destruction

aren't.

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