Reviews tagging 'Pregnancy'

The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu

15 reviews

nerdkitten's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious fast-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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Confinement, Murder, Blood, Death, Grief, Gore, and Death of parent

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, Alcohol, and Gun violence

Minor: Animal death, Classism, Sexism, War, Religious bigotry, Suicide, Police brutality, and Pregnancy

puifaii's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Grief, War, Murder, and Colonisation

Moderate: Physical abuse, Confinement, Death, Pregnancy, and Police brutality

Minor: Medical trauma

alexutzu's review against another edition

adventurous informative reflective tense slow-paced

• 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

This book took me ages to get through. Was it worth it? Honestly, there's no clear answer to this question. It's not that the book had no good parts, but the "meh" elements really outweighed the better ones. I enjoyed the mix of historical/political details with the science parts, but the fictional side of this was not really my thing. After finding out about the controversies surrounding the author and his perspectives, I struggled even more with thinking about the book on a positive note. I doubt that I will continue this series.
 
😍 The good:
The scientific descriptions were researched and complex, making me wonder if these things could really happen in daily life. There were a bunch of interesting quotes and ideas, specifically in the first and second part of the book. Due to its complexity, it is fun and easy to come up with many theories related to this. I personally also liked learning more about the history of China and this novel encouraged me to research and understand the related sociopolitical phenomena better.

😅 The not-so-good:
The characters were flat and not that interesting and I felt at times that the plot has some holes. The literary style was barely existent in my opinion, as the book was really heavy to process and packed with too many details that felt more like a thesis than a novel. Overall, the general idea related to cultish alien invasions was not my really cup of tea, so the last part of the book was really dragging for me and I had to speed-read it. I also felt that there were too many story lines and plot points to keep track of and some of them seemed redundant or absurd.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder, and Death

Moderate: Suicide and Colonisation

Minor: Alcohol and Pregnancy

icarusandthesun's review

challenging mysterious reflective slow-paced

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

3.5

this book fried my brain.
i'm a little ashamed to admit that i didn't understand like half of it. maybe it was the english terminology—all the jargon—, or maybe it was the fact i'm not too knowledgeable about neither the Chinese Cultural Revolution nor, well, astrophysics.

maybe my reading was also lacking a bit of personal initiative, because i'm sure a couple more google searches (that i didn't make) would've greatly helped my understanding.
but alas. perhaps i will re-read this book someday and then hopefully understand it a bit better, because the story and ideas weren't at all bad! i still really enjoyed it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

Minor: Alcohol and Pregnancy

atalea's review against another edition

challenging dark 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? No

4.0

At the beginning it was a five star read for me, but at the end it became a little too science heavy for me which deflated my interest a bit. I do love how the author explains difficult scientific concepts, it made it easier to follow. Very interested to see how things continue!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Death, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide, and Death of parent

Minor: Mental illness, Pregnancy, and War

seaofbooks's review against another edition

challenging dark funny informative inspiring mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail and Death of parent

Moderate: Blood, Violence, Suicide, Fire/Fire injury, and Medical trauma

Minor: Animal death, Pregnancy, and Colonisation

bettysbookishworld's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death of parent, Death, and War

Moderate: Murder and Police brutality

Minor: Pregnancy and Alcohol

zombiezami's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

4.25

This is the first book that I’ve read by this author, and I can tell he’s super talented and knowledgeable. He weaves history, advanced science, and philosophy together in fascinating ways. It was hard to follow at times, though, because of the thoroughness of his descriptions. Not sure if I’ll read the other books in this series, but this one was pretty fascinating.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Murder, Torture, Fire/Fire injury, Blood, Suicidal thoughts, Body horror, Death, Suicide, and Animal death

Moderate: Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Confinement, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Colonisation, Genocide, and War

ohyeah_karyn's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Pregnancy, Suicide, Alcohol, Death of parent, Grief, War, Death, and Blood

lesejaguar's review

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