First of all a big thank you to the author, the publisher and Netgalley for sending me a copy of this book to read and review.

I found this to be fascinating. I have recently really gotten interested in space and the universe. So this was a good starting point for someone who is just starting out on the subject.

This is a complex yet engaging book on life, the universe and everything. You'll need to concentrate while reading - it's not a light read. It is, however, enjoyable and I would recommend.

Wow, this made my brain hurt (and I have a degree in astrophysics). While I enjoyed Katie Mack’s lighthearted and quirky style, I just couldn’t wade through the chapter on how everything started, let alone get to how it may end. Cosmology is not light reading.

I read this a couple of months ago but the review failed to connect to Goodreads for some reason. Katie Mack takes literally mindbogglingly complicated theories about how the universe itself will end and makes them understandable and not at all depressing. A funny and incredibly interesting book.

I had such an amazing time reading this book! I first fell in love with Physics during our first class on Newton's Theory of Gravitation: so lovely that the world could be described by formulas, move and behave in such describable ways, and look so beautifully mathematical, mysterious and intriguing, that the darkness and the starts could have such fascinating patterns. This was a long time ago, and it's not been often that I felt the same fascination and desire to understand more - but this book brought back that experience of all the things we know and don't know about the Universe and its behavior.

Katie Mack does an excellent job of talking about theories that delve into quantum mechanics, particle physics, multiverses and so on in such a readable way (and funny, too). I had to re-read a lot of parts because I wanted to absorb as much as possible from this book and its interesting theories on how the universe started and what that means as to how it's going to end. While I wish there had been more photographs, data and graphs, that was not what Dr. Mack was trying to do with this book, so it's a minor and personal complaint but in no way a detriment to the book itself. I think she did a great job in keeping interesting discussions that are so abstract, and the kind of details I wanted to see would have made the book more technical and less readable to the general public.

I highly recommend this book if you've ever been interested in knowing what the Big Bang really is, what other theories are out there about how the Universe started and how it may end, and the interesting debates occurring with every new discovery.

Astrophysicist Katie Mack provides insight into the myriad ways in which the world could end, extinguishing life in the process, and despite the topic being a morbid and sobering one I found it absolutely riveting, extensively researched and accessible throughout; it really is a rarity that a science book can have you so enthralled by what you are reading. It explores five different ways the universe could end and the wondrous physics, big questions, and mind-blowing lessons underlying them with each being discussed thoroughly and all being deeply interesting concepts to read about, if not a little scary. The perfect antidote to the rather depressing subject matter is the liberal sprinkle of wit and humour interspersed amongst its pages. Most of all it illustrates the transient nature of life. A captivating, informative and profoundly thought-provoking book I am not likely to forget any time soon. Many thanks to Allen Lane for an ARC.

The thought of the end of the universe isn't something that makes me smile and laugh... However, Katie Mack's "The End of Everything" certainly managed to turn the subject into one to be taken more light-heartedly. This is a really engaging read that's easy to get to grips with (though some parts did manage to tie my head in knots - thanks mainly to thought processes nudged into being by what I was reading). Fun, informative, and oddly comforting!

My thanks to the author, publisher, and NetGalley for an advance copy to review. This review is entirely my own, unbiased, opinion.

This book covers the possible ways that the universe may end, but in order to understand that, we have to go back to how it all started.
The author's writing style is humorous and casual, more like talking over a brew, which I rather liked. I adore reading about the universe and I have read a fair amount, but this one just seems a little more light-hearted than most of the others.
The book is informative and written well. The author has a way that makes even the most complex of theories easier to understand.

A heavy topic, but written brilliantly. Sometimes laugh out loud funny too. Not finished yet, but am really enjoying it!

Whenever I read about the vastness of the universe, I feel like I travel in time. We see distant galaxies billions of years in the past and I wonder how they look like now.

Cosmology is a difficult astronomy field – not that the others are much easier for a layman – but a very compelling one. Everything related to the origins or the end of the universe has a strong attraction to me.

That’s the main reason for choosing this book and the fact that I heard/read some of AstroKatie’s talks/tweets and I liked the way she talked.

Unfortunately, it was not the case with this book. Albeit very interesting, the writing almost ruined it for me. She digresses so much that you forgot what the main thread was. On addition, the author explains almost every concept used in phrases. Not that these are not interesting; it’s just too much and it scrambles the whole narrative.

If a reader chooses to read this book, I assume it has some physics/astronomy knowledge and doesn’t need everything explained; it’s supposed to be a popularizing science book, not a school one.

All these diversions would have worked much better as footnotes, not included in the narrative thread. As for the actual footnotes, which are meant to be witty, mostly they are not and do not add anything of value to the book; on the contrary, along with all the parenthesis, digressions, and explanations, they just divert the reader’s attention to the point that you begin to feel exasperated.

It’s one thing to tweet or give a five minutes talk and sound great and an utterly different thing to write a book. Maybe her next one will be better.

It’s not a book to avoid, but wait for your brains to be jumbled not only by the concepts, which was expected, but by the writing too, which was not.