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A review by blau_elmo
Death's End by Cixin Liu
adventurous
challenging
mysterious
reflective
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
What a breathtaking trilogy. Insanely imaginative, spanning eons of time, detailing the possible theories of an infinite universe!
The story is expansive, and it brings up many amazing sci-fi concepts almost seamlessly, using grand metaphors and events to illustrate these concepts. Everything feels like one great step after another, and the sheer breadth of it all is breathtaking. It is a book with incomprehensible scale.
The characters and the interactions between them are representative of concepts and clans within civilisations rather than actual individuals, which is befitting for a book of such a scale.
The only thing I can really say is that I am truly in awe at this trilogy. Jaw-dropping.
The story is expansive, and it brings up many amazing sci-fi concepts almost seamlessly, using grand metaphors and events to illustrate these concepts. Everything feels like one great step after another, and the sheer breadth of it all is breathtaking. It is a book with incomprehensible scale.
The characters and the interactions between them are representative of concepts and clans within civilisations rather than actual individuals, which is befitting for a book of such a scale.
The only thing I can really say is that I am truly in awe at this trilogy. Jaw-dropping.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Genocide and War