bswitch 's review for:

The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu

4.0

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

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This was a bit of a slower go, but very captivating at points. There were two plot lines going - one terrestrial, the other in space. I found the former to be fantastic, and the space-based one to be...less than. It honestly caught me at one point questioning "Wait, how did we get here? How do we have people in space again?" That may be a ME problem, though. Confusing, culturally distinct, but man, what a tale. Onto the third!