Bob Lee’s Reviews > Death's End > Status Update

Bad: Cheng Xin (female protagonist), doesn't want to work on FTL drive so gives all her stuff to a fellow whom she doesn't trust and goes into hibernation. She made him promise to wake her if there's a major problem. Gets woken up, essentially stomps her foot and says, "Keep your promise!" and goes back into hibernation. Best part: multiple space habs but the workers' one doesn't rotate. All people and bldgs float!

Next 100 pages: An interesting intellectual question introduced. If there are aliens out there who destroy you as soon as they find out your planet hosts intelligence, what could you do to prove to them you are no threat (now or ever). But then it goes into a 33 page fairy tale!! (A fellow with aliens being closely watched makes one up to hint at something to help Earth. I was okay until it went on and on and on!!)

sigh--the few mildly interesting parts are overwhelmed with the totally annoying sections. I dislike the main gal even more now--she's a total wimp. She doesn't overcome adversity so much as get sent from one thing to another. And..I guess if you never heard of nor read "Flatland" you might find the many pages of traversing a higher dimension interesting.

I didn't care for the first 2 books in this series, so am hoping this concluding novel is better. I figured I needed to see how it ends given the time I spent reading the earlier releases. We'll see.