Review: Liu Cixin (劉慈欣) - The Dark Forest (黑暗森林) (2008, Translated in 2015 by Joel Martinsen)

This book was interesting, but I found it more difficult to grasp than the Three Body Problem. I think that the characters in the Dark Forest were not as likeable as the characters in the Three Body Problem, which was why the book wasn’t as engaging at times. While the Three Body Problem was completely focused on the two main characters, there were times in the Dark Forest when the main characters were mainly in the backseat, which made it difficult for me to understand what I should be paying attention to.

Considering how much information was given to us in the Three Body Problem regarding this world, I don't think that the Dark Forest would be very satisfying if the reader hadn't read the Three Body problem. And while I didn't enjoy the Dark Forest as much as the Three Body Problem, I'm still going to read on.

So my opinion for this book was that it had a lot of interesting concepts, but it didn’t exhibit the qualities that made the Three Body Problem such a great science fiction story, particularly its main characters and their strong values.

Spoilers.

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