I enjoyed The Three Body Problem, but I'm not sure about The Dark Forest as much. On the one hand, it was a reasonably interesting and enjoyable book for most of the time. However, once we reached the section with the teardrop I felt that the story had become unnecessarily contrived and that undermined my enthusiasm.
The story didn't really seem to find its feet after - Liu had made the point he was going to make at the end, and the conclusion just felt very rushed. Considering how the book ended, there seems to be an awful lot that is actually resolved, and it's difficult at the moment to feel compelled to read the third book.
Additionally, while I found his suggestion for the Fermi Paradox interesting, it all seemed very dark - and the example underlining that with the starships seemed to go against human nature. Maybe that's just me, though.
Overall, not a bad book in the trilogy, but I'm not feeling particularly curious as to what might happen in the final book.
The story didn't really seem to find its feet after - Liu had made the point he was going to make at the end, and the conclusion just felt very rushed. Considering how the book ended, there seems to be an awful lot that is actually resolved, and it's difficult at the moment to feel compelled to read the third book.
Additionally, while I found his suggestion for the Fermi Paradox interesting, it all seemed very dark - and the example underlining that with the starships seemed to go against human nature. Maybe that's just me, though.
Overall, not a bad book in the trilogy, but I'm not feeling particularly curious as to what might happen in the final book.
