Wrapped up the first book after much struggle. Am I crazy for finding it extremely poorly written? Writing aside, the characters suck, the motivations suck, and the scenario building feels like it was tossed together by a 12 year old. I don't get the hype. Everything is paper thin. The fictional science aspect is the most compelling part but as a cohesive whole it fails to land.

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[+] Jhex@lemmy.world -9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

not all cultures write soap operas... this is a hard sci-fi trilogy, the lovable characters, comic relief and product placement you are used to are not to be found here

[–] roscoe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

This is very much not hard sci-fi. My biggest problem with it is how it pretends to be.

The author doesn't even understand the eponymous scientific term.

Edit: I don't know enough about every culture to dispute your claim that not all cultures write soap operas, but China sure as hell does. They produce more and have a larger audience than anywhere else in the world. They like the same shit everyone else does. Your bullshit claim is Orientalism at best and fetishization at worst.

[–] ieGod@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Hiding behind the perspective of hard sci-fi doesn't make this a good book.

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

like I said, it's not a novella... I did not pick these books expecting a love story... I was expecting an intereting sci fi saga and got that