Finished: 9/25/21
Grade: B+
This Chinese sci-fi epic is one part hard boiled thriller, one part alien apocalypse, and one part treatise on the philosophy of physics.
I started reading this book once before, read about 100 pages, got a little bored and gave up on it. Then everyone I know (my dad and my friend David) told me that it was amazing and that I should give it another shot. So I picked it up again, and honestly I stand by my original conclusion.
It starts with a bang and develops quickly, but in the middle things spread a little thin. The sci-fi concepts are exciting, but some of them feel added on, and there is a lot of explaining.
When the action is happening this book is exciting and fun, but I think, too often, it gets lost in it’s own heady sci-fi sauce.
Or maybe I’m just too dumb for this book. HECK. That could be it.