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Dec 01, 2017susan_findlay rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Like the other books in this series, Death's End was full of interesting ideas - about both physics and human nature. The scale of the book is immense. It literally covers billions of years. To address an issue raised by other reviewers: I wasn't personally bothered by the lack of female characters in Dark Forest because there is no shortage of them in either Three-Body Problem or Death's End. And I wasn't bothered by the female protagonist's flaws because, frankly, a flawless protagonist is uninteresting. The concept of technologically advanced societies losing masculinity was odd and didn't improve the book, but I wasn't offended by it - possibly because I don't agree that there was an implication that the aggressive male character would have done any better than the protagonist (a different route to the same outcome, perhaps, but not a better outcome). Unfortunately, I found the ending rather anticlimactic (which is why I'm not giving the book 5 stars; I was almost tempted to drop to 3 stars but decided that not loving the last 20 pages of a 600 page book maybe wasn't quite a good enough reason to drop by two stars).