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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    2 days ago

    Its really hard to come up with new sci fi tropes! And Liu casually comes up with a dozen new ones.

    Unfortunately, then he shoves them all into the same book. He needs to be the show runner of a sci-fi TV series.