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cephon's review against another edition
3.0
Moderate: Child death
iono's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
1.5
Graphic: War and Death of parent
Moderate: Violence, Child death, Death, and Xenophobia
Minor: Suicide
shermansays's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.25
Graphic: Violence, War, Child death, Gun violence, Death, and Death of parent
Moderate: Alcohol, Mass/school shootings, and Murder
Minor: Child abuse, Pregnancy, and Medical trauma
olityr's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
Moderate: Child death, Gore, Death of parent, Death, Alcohol, War, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Gun violence
faesissa's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
3.75
Graphic: Child death
Moderate: War
jcath's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
3.0
Graphic: War, Child death, and Violence
Moderate: Death of parent
larkken's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Graphic: War and Death of parent
Moderate: Gun violence and Child death
maurits's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
1.0
It is completely unrealistic. The story doesn't make any sense and is absolutely unbelievable. It's stretching suspension of disbelief to its very limits and far beyond. It seems Liu meant to write a book about human nature, but really, he failed to even write a book about humans, let alone their nature.
Moreover, compared to his Remembrance of Earth's Past series, the science in this book is plain bad. In the aforementioned series, I felt like the science could actually have a chance of being true. It sounded at least somewhat plausible, despite knowing it is fiction.
The science in this book is just lacking. It's not hard science fiction. Liu just posits a super-smart quantum computer for random reasons. We just have to accept that. We have to simply accept whatever bullshit he comes up with.
Lastly - and this point is for better or for worse - the book is simply anti-American propaganda. Which, again, is a route you can take, but Liu definitely wasn't concerned with writing anything remotely close to real Americans.
Moderate: Death of parent and War
Minor: Child death