Thank you, this is exactly how I felt. The translation makes the dialogue a total snooze fest but even if that wasn’t the case every character is either
- Their motivations don’t make sense
- Extremely 1 dimensional with no character growth
- Or they exist solely as some kind of plot device.
The second book is worse because the reveal doesn’t even make sense.
Spoiler below
Basically the main character established some kind of mutually assured destruction without any Sophon realizing what he was doing. Even though some of the logical steps the other people were taking were far more intricate.
The whole book was one giant cliffhanger that had me thinking ”Wait they didn’t catch that!". I never read the third book