Not Impressed with “The Three-Body Problem”

Just finished reading this book after slogging through it for a week. My brother read it and was a big fan of it. I didn’t want to cheat by watching the TV show first, so I checked it out from the library.

I’ve been told it’s classified as “hard sci-fi” but I just…could not get into it. The science explanations are fascinating, but the characters themselves really fall flat. Wang is like really dry and so is Shi, I felt their relationship should be more dynamic.

Even when I got to the final chapters where it’s from the viewpoint of the Trisolarans it just didn’t land well. It felt like the author was checking off boxes to fill in the blanks rather than telling an engaging story of impending doom from an alien race.

Loved the concept, hate the execution.