Reviews

Death's End by Cixin Liu

slpstream's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative slow-paced

4.25

ansbromadison's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad fast-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

seroquel's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

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

5.0

amande9727's review against another edition

reflective tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No

4.5

tobbetutta's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

4.5

pef8ravens's review against another edition

5.0

Just an Epic & fantastic book like nothing that I had ever read before or since.

Just the sheer scale of this book is amazing. Any one of the details that goes into this story could be made into its own book or even its own series. Instead of some cheap excuse for why aliens might attack that many other science fiction books come up with, we seem reasons that are well thought our & plausible. Instead of cheesy space battles which are just aerial dog fights in space, we see how galactic civilizations could weaponize physics itself in some truly impressive & horrifying ways.

Instead of a one dimensional civilization, we see a population that changes over centuries as its situation changes. We see militaristic societies turn to more carefree societies & back. We see hopeful peoples certain of imminent victory & peoples on the run & trying to hide from inbound devastation. With cryopreservation, we also get to see characters from earlier eras wake up into new versions of society & marvel or cringe at how the world has changed as their values clash with the new world they wake up to.

A mind blowing & mind opening read that raises the bar for future science fiction writers.

carlitosdo's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective

3.5

isakmuhamedagic's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful informative inspiring sad medium-paced

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

4.25

ratinareads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark informative reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.0

iskander_rt's review

adventurous dark hopeful inspiring mysterious sad medium-paced

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

4.75