A review by bedwinnjamin
Ball Lightning by Cixin Liu

challenging medium-paced

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

2.25

Coming from the Three Body Problem, this book just really wasn't for me.  The character and the plot felt a bit pigeonholed.  I couldn't really get behind the main character as he didn't feel like a real person.  I know it's fiction, but his antics were really breaking my immersion because I just couldn't connect with him.  Three body problem works because the characters and time-scale are vast, but this falls apart in my mind because it's so specific and local.  Instead of him just being a scientist, he's an obsessed person.