A review by steelcitygator
Ball Lightning, by Cixin Liu
2.0
A strong middle is ruined by a weak start and a completely flat ending. The best parts of it are definitely prior to the war breaking out (this coming from someone who's favorite genre of fiction are good WW3 gone hot books). The discovery portion is what really drives it and it's great. The playing off supernatural elements to be revealed as actually science based reasoning (per the laws of the books world) is actually a great idea. So many things we know now where at one time mysterious and left to the human imagination and it's an element I haven't seen treated in this way before.
Overall it's not bad. I didn't realize this author was the same as Three Body Problem and, since it's been so highly recommended, I'll for sure check that out but Ball Lightning is a real take it or leave it book for me.
Overall it's not bad. I didn't realize this author was the same as Three Body Problem and, since it's been so highly recommended, I'll for sure check that out but Ball Lightning is a real take it or leave it book for me.