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Rated Death's End 6/10

If this were a technical rating, the book would get 5 stars. For me however, the book felt like a bit of a slog. It took me 2 months to read it and the story line, good gosh, feels like it is stretched across time.<br/><i></i><br/>I felt like there were large sections of the story that didn't really apply to anything in the overall arch that we were following - or maybe it was so long that I lost the thread of the story!<br/><br/>It also felt like the main protagonist, Cheng Xin, was being constantly punished by the author - although she does admit her own uphill climb in one of the later chapters entitled "The Stairs of Responsibility".<br/><br/>The ending of the book (last 15%) also describes in detail the end of the Solar System. It's pretty visual and pretty bleak, and one heck of an idea to wrap my head around. <br/><br/>In fact, the book is full of ideas that are hard to wrap my head around - and that's what Liu Cixin does amazingly well.<br/><br/>For me though, as someone who is reasonably new to hard sci-fi, I found this book to tip me over the edge into "whoa, this is a bit much". I've also read that apparently there's a fourth book in the works (or even finished) and I've no idea how that story would even continue!!!<br/><br/>As for the contents of the story, I'm not sure I can even explain - certainly epic and thought provoking!

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Published 2026-08-01 11:11 UTC · bridged from Atmosphere