An excellent conclusion to one of the best sci-fi trilogies I've read.

The book as a whole was wonderful and I'm so glad I read it, but I do want to mention that as endings go, I felt the ending of the second book more satisfying and conclusive.

Some notes about the ending from my reread (for those who have read the book):



The ending was way more melodramatic than it needed to be, in my opinion. There were a couple easy solutions:

- Presumably AA and Yun Tianming had their own ship (or how did Tianming get there) so couldn't they have flown up to relativistic speeds and gone forward in time to meet the others? I'll admit that timing the deaccelaration would be extremely tricky since they didn't actually know when the others would come out of relativistic speeds, but it could probably be solved with some application of the high-tech Trisolaran technology Tianming must inevitably have had. But there's an even simpler solution:
- AA and Tianming should have lived in the mini-universe for a little while. The door could be set to alert them when the others come out of their light-speed travel, and since time seems to flow very differently in the mini-universe they could probably get back together after only a year or maybe even less.

Anyway. I get the point of the ending and why the author chose to do it this way, but it still felt very avoidable and I'm slightly disappointed in it because in the rest of the series, consequences of actions were so well thought out.

Thus ends the rant.