A review by koberreads
Death's End by Cixin Liu

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny informative inspiring mysterious reflective relaxing sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

A beautiful end, not the most perfect ending for anyone, but it is beautiful and a must read if you read both the previous books. This book is the most immense and awe inspiring, conclusion to a scifi universe that is already so vast and complex based on the previous books, but this book immensely out played the other books in its vastness of time and space. 

I honestly would give it a 4.5 because I did not like the ending so much but made it 5 after realizing, I cant write a perfect ending as well on this grand scale Triology. I have nothing but respect and awe for Cixin Liu and hope he lives a long and happy life. And I hope as well that the films adaptations in netflix and future adaptation would give these 3 books the justice it deserves. Of course they cant copy or replicate all the scenes in the book into a film but at least bring out the best ones and hopefully they give the rest of the characters a more fulfilling end roles. But the books alone for me are enough of an ending. 

I would have appreciated as well, and do not mind if the book gets longer because of this, that there is a great focus or exploration of the different "other" aliens in the universe, especially the master race, but turns out we only get glimpses of stories about this Aliens that can be considered "Gods" because they can manipulate the laws of Physics and mathematics. Love the part about the "Singer" the sniping, sentimental singign alien from a a highly advanced world. I wish Cixin Liu could have given more of that and introduced a new alien, in a new way. But so far the only aliens we get in this complex and almost proustian length trilogy are two alien races and other vaguely described godly ones.

I wonder what happened to Dashi and his son? I hope they lived a long happy life even before bunker era commenced.

SPOILER COMMMENTS BELOW!!!! 

The ending left me thinking that me and my family could be seperated by immense millions years of time and I could never get to see them grow old. Which is the saddest and most heartfelt thing for any one to experience. A after reading the ending last night, the next morning I wanted to watch marvel movies with my siblings and parents (because that is one of the things we do as a form of "family time") because I cant stop thinking no matter how irrational and probable it is that we get seperated by immense vast swats of time later or in the future.