Reviews

The Redemption of Time by Baoshu

fire_phoenix's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.25

mistwhisper117's review against another edition

3.0

Only worth it is you want the speculative alien side of the equation from a fan.

cadnad's review against another edition

fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

sapphickohaku's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

lucarufi's review against another edition

informative mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

2.0

j_e_n_n's review against another edition

adventurous fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.0

fbroom's review against another edition

1.0

Stopped after 35% or so.
This was boring honestly. Did I care about the first bit of added romance? Nope. Did I care about trying to analyze and fill the gaps in the past? Nope. The cherry on top was adding the “Spirit” who was telling Yum Tianming about what was going on in the universe in his dreams. So like a god. Hmm boring so bye.

ccheng4's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

Interesting concepts, but doesn't really compare to the originals in my opinion

rustykingswood's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

eveningreverie's review against another edition

adventurous reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.5

Enjoyable, but adds a layer atop the original trilogy that requires a Herculean amount of disbelief suspension to take in. Fanfiction through and through, in all the worst ways (awful “real-life” tie-ins, unnecessary comments about other real media that is clearly the fanfic author venting, unnecessary sexualization of previously fairly chaste characters) and the best ways (thoughtful “what-if”s relating to the main series, attention to detail allowing for important story moments to be directly connected, large-scale spectacle).

Absolutely, bar none, the worst book in the Three-Body universe, but it does do a few things right and allows me to feel like I’m living in a universe I loved to read about that much longer, even if I do think I’ll try hard to forget pretty much everything about it.