Reviews tagging 'Blood'

The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu

36 reviews

lesejaguar's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Alcohol, Violence, Death, and Blood

Moderate: Murder

Minor: Suicide and Pregnancy

uranaishi's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Violence, Bullying, Emotional abuse, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Murder, War, Alcohol, Classism, Abandonment, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Gaslighting, Grief, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Sexism, Toxic relationship, and Blood

Minor: Colonisation, Pregnancy, Suicide attempt, Domestic abuse, Police brutality, and Suicide

emnime's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Noticed a few plot holes, but the amount of time the author spend perfecting the scientific information is incredibly impressive.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Child death, Suicide, Genocide, Murder, Death of parent, and Blood

ariep's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective tense slow-paced

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

4.5

This book was absolutely incredible. I love hard sci-fi, and this totally fit the bill. The science within was incredible interesting and very interdisciplinary!! I was not expecting the story to get so intense, but it was really enjoyable. I had a hard time processing all the info, but I rally enjoyed the read! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, and Death

Moderate: Suicide

kinddog2073's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny informative mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

On the surface it seemed not to be the most philosophical sci-fi/speculative fiction, but as I progressed through the book I was delightfully proven wrong. There is a thoughtful and compelling philosophical story underpinning the actions of the characters, ones variously coloured by eco-fascism, nihilism, hope, and clever metaphor.

Much of this book read quite cheesy to me, though that improved at about 50% of the way through. Very glad I picjed this book back uo.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, War, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

Moderate: Xenophobia and Police brutality

Minor: Animal death

mlewis's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Murder, Death of parent, Death, Blood, and Violence

Moderate: Suicide and Grief

Minor: Forced institutionalization and Alcohol

beereads27's review against another edition

challenging tense slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Violence

Moderate: Murder and War

Minor: Suicide and Colonisation

thecasualbooknerd's review against another edition

adventurous challenging informative slow-paced

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

3.25

Science fiction in the truest, purest sense of the words; truly a feat to have an intergalactic story so rooted in science and immersive in terms of character. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, War, and Gun violence

Moderate: Alcoholism and Murder

Minor: Grief, Death, and Suicide

ekcd_'s review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense 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? No

1.5

It’s all spoilers this whole thing. 

Where to start?

The characters are utterly forgettable and there is not a single redeemable or meaningful relationship between any of the characters or any facet of the story. They only existed so they could talk to each other as a way to move the plot along. Without the characters the whole book could be reduced to one, drunken rant about “like what if aliens lived on an unstable planet?” He put characters in so it wouldn’t just be a really bizarre lecture 

This book reads as 350 pages of history and philosophical waxing and then 50 pages of shitty alien fan fiction that is really just the author patting himself on the back for creating analogies that are complicated enough for readers to think him smart but are ultimately meaningless. 

By rooting a story in the present and then layering in completely absurd scientific magic over it really removed me from the story. The physics and math were really inaccessible and honesty glossed over that whole chapter. 

Nothing in this story or it’s writing made me care about any of the individuals, civilizations, communities or social movements that were used. 

I am gobsmacked that so many people praise this book so highly. I love science fiction and read it almost exclusively. The only thing keeping me from rage quitting half way through was rage reading so I could review this book without people saying  “you didn’t finish it so you can’t comment on it” 

It gets a 1.5 because I was able to finish it quickly (thank god)

Well screw you, fans of this book, I read it and I disliked it! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Xenophobia, Violence, Suicide, Police brutality, Hate crime, Gun violence, Genocide, Death, Confinement, Colonisation, Classism, and Blood

Minor: Alcoholism, Blood, Body horror, Gore, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, Classism, Colonisation, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Infertility, Medical trauma, Murder, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Racism, Religious bigotry, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Violence, War, and Xenophobia

I don’t regret reading this because at least it gives me something concrete to point my unhinged anger at. Going to drink some tea and read something that I know is good and pure

maddowils's review against another edition

challenging medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Violence, Murder, Gun violence, Suicide, Death of parent, and Blood