Reviews tagging 'Fire/Fire injury'

The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu

4 reviews

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

brynalexa's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

Fast paced, then slow paced, then fast paced again. The middle was very difficult to follow (on purpose, I believe). My favorite aspect was the science/philosophy/history fusion.  I think I would have had a more enjoyable time reading a physical copy. I very much love the varying perspectives, especially at the end. The game element was very unique as well. Unfortunately, this book confirms my practice of not reading books by men. There were few non-men characters and they were often just described by their breasts. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Alcohol, Stalking, Body horror, and War

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

cinnamonandpancakes's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective slow-paced

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

3.0

This book is a very interesting read but I would honestly describe it more as a political thriller with hard science fiction elements. The aliens are vague and their advanced technologies are more fantasy than based in hard science, though the science on the human side is much more realistic.

Quibbles about genre aside, I found a lot of the conclusions people draw in this book to be very pessimistic and narrow minded. It is a very gloomy book. Many characters make terrible discoveries and then just give up. A terrible doom is coming and we can't do anything about it so we're just going to give up fighting?! Maybe I'm just young but that attitude infuriates me.

That being said, there's some imaginative uses of science in this book and the sequels are set up well. If you like the prospect of doomy political thriller with aliens then this is a very well written example.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Violence, and War

Moderate: Blood and Death

Minor: Suicide