A review by victoria_mh
The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu

adventurous challenging dark mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

3.25

I read this a lot faster than I read most books; it had some really interesting ideas (and some incredibly trippy bits!) and I wanted to see what happened. I do want to see what happens in the later books. However, it wasn't as amazing as I'd hoped; I knew there was quite a bit of hype around this book which usually means I'm disappointed, so I should have been prepared for that. A lot of plot points require a great deal of suspension of disbelief, which irks me for a book that I thought was meant to be fairly hard sci-fi. It almost feels like a fairytale or fable in places, and coming at it from that perspective, it is more enjoyable. Some of the characters' decisions and motivations don't make sense to me either. I really wanted to like this but it was...OK.