It was actually amazing. I'm incredibly impressed by her ability to make me see images of contexts I do not know (something I'm not typically very good at). I was a bit afraid, at the beginning, of getting lost in proper names, but I finally got the gist of it (it may or may not have me search for a map of Gethen, which helped a lot.)

I must admit I would have loved a HEA. It was fairly obvious from a few chapters before that it was probably not going to happen, and that ending got me frantically turn pages with a "no, no, nooooo" in my head, and it probably delivered a more emotional/memorable ending this way... but I would have loved a HEA.