Added this series to my list a few months back. Read book 1 about a month ago and I’m about 70% through book 2.
I’m struggling to understand why this book is so recommended here and on Amazon. Perhaps the English translation version is just bad?
The pacing is terrible and the plot is meandering (to put it nicely). And overall the character arcs and storyline is confusing. It has a ton of filler content that doesn’t add much and feels like it needs an editor to chop it down / tighten it up.
Every once in a while there are some novelties, like droplets (book 2). But last night while reading I was just skipping pages hoping to get it over with.
Was hoping for Alastair Reynolds but this is more Ayn Rand.
I hate quitting a book but I’m just about there. Throwing out a lifeline in case I’m missing something…
joke: Psht. I read Stephen King. There is almost no filler content in this book by comparison.
Outside of that, it is the concept that works so very well. Even the translation can’t do much about them, but what goes on in the Game is really quite interesting, a form of explaining the situation of the Trisolarans.
What follows is sarcasm based on the first book: You watch the intellectual elites, both the horrifically traumatized one and the rich slimeball, decide that they’d rather humanity be wiped out or dominated than be left to the whims of the lower classes, who will cut down entire forests and destroy ecosystems in order to get enough money to survive right now.