Started off very slow but picked up towards the end of the book. 

This is a follow up to the book “The Three Body Problem”, but it is very different. I’d say this has more philosophy baked in than hard sci-fi. It’s also a bit slower paced.      

That said it is still a very good read and I highly recommend it. 

Edit: I pushed through and I’m so glad I did! Because the second half of this book really redeemed itself for me. So good! And that ending 👌


Got through about 35% of the way through and it’s been a struggle. I have absolutely no motivation to read it. The story has been moving super slow and I really don’t like any of the characters in this one. I’ll keep it on my list and maybe give it a chance some other time. 

The first half of the book is a bit of a slog--you're spending a lot of time with a main character whose main personality traits are laziness and (I would describe it as) misogyny. Luo Ji just isn't as compelling or complex of a central character as Ye Wenjie was in the first novel.
That said, once things really start moving halfway through, the plot picks up and the book dives again into the big-picture, sci-fi/sociological ideas that Cixin Liu is so brilliant for. The payoff is definitely worth it, but this one is more of a slog than the first book to get there.