A review by booksandnailz
The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-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? N/A

4.0

I was really intrigued by the story telling in the first book of this series, so I was very interested in seeing how this book progressed the story. I enjoyed the story it told - how does humanity react to a threat 400 years away? What plans do they make, how does society react, and and what are the biggest obstacles? This story explores all of these questions and more. I enjoyed that the story was heavy on the science in this science fiction tale. I was thrown off by the fact that there are virtually no chapters in this whole book. There are 3 parts with one or two chapters in part two as time passes, but the book is essentially one big long clump of paragraphs with nothing breaking it up so it was hard to get through. POVs change with only a space in between to indicate the change. Was this a choice of the translator? (who is different from the translator for books 1 & 3) There are many POVs in this story but no real “main character.” I’ll definitely be reading the next book and looking forward to Ken Liu as the translator again.