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A review by sweekune
Death's End by Cixin Liu
adventurous
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
4.75/5
Audiobook narrated by Bruno Roubicek.
A fantastic end to a long, detailed and well thought-out trilogy. In Death's End, we follow Cheng Xin through a series of twists and turns in her career and life. Cheng Xin is gifted a star by a terminally ill college friend and this sparks off a series of events that dramatically the human race.
- As with the previous books, everything is extremely detailed in this book. When I first started the series, I was a bit bemused by this and found it unnecessary but now I feel like the small details provide an excellent sense of place, time and culture. The world building is on a truly universal scale.
- The technology and changes over Cheng Xin's lifetime were truly incredible and I love how well explained they were and the wonder and horror various technologies added to the story.
- The book covers such a huge span of events that sometimes it's hard to believe events happened in the same book. There are lots of parts I thoroughly enjoyed but I think my favourite would be the Fairy Tales section for the mystery and tension they added.
For those who enjoy immense world-building, hard sci-fi with twists and turns and stories on a galactic scale, I would highly recommend this trilogy.
Audiobook narrated by Bruno Roubicek.
A fantastic end to a long, detailed and well thought-out trilogy. In Death's End, we follow Cheng Xin through a series of twists and turns in her career and life. Cheng Xin is gifted a star by a terminally ill college friend and this sparks off a series of events that dramatically the human race.
- As with the previous books, everything is extremely detailed in this book. When I first started the series, I was a bit bemused by this and found it unnecessary but now I feel like the small details provide an excellent sense of place, time and culture. The world building is on a truly universal scale.
- The technology and changes over Cheng Xin's lifetime were truly incredible and I love how well explained they were and the wonder and horror various technologies added to the story.
- The book covers such a huge span of events that sometimes it's hard to believe events happened in the same book. There are lots of parts I thoroughly enjoyed but I think my favourite would be the Fairy Tales section for the mystery and tension they added.
For those who enjoy immense world-building, hard sci-fi with twists and turns and stories on a galactic scale, I would highly recommend this trilogy.