The Three-Body Problem is a Chinese science fiction thriller translated into English and follows several different scientists during different parts of their lives. First there's Ye Wenjie who witnesses her father getting beat to death in front of her during the Cultural Revolution and is then brought to a government base to work on a special project, under the eye of commanding officers and other scientists. Decades later, Wang Miao a nano-scientist is dragged into a strange police investigation which ends up with him involved in an online game where he tries to solves The Three-Body Problem and all the dots in the story so far begin to connect.

Okay, so this was good and I did actually enjoy reading it but there was just so.much.science and I was too stupid for it. I liked science in school and I went on to study chemistry and biology for my school exams but I do not like or understand science on this level and every single page was just saturated with it. In saying that, I could more or less get what was going on with the plot without actually understanding every single thing but I do feel like some of it did go over my head at times.

This was well paced, and despite the science jargon kept me hooked and wanting to keep reading. I really wanted to figure out what the hell was going on. Because this was originally Chinese, there were some bits I didn't quite understand (though the Translators Notes came in very handy at different point) but it was also very well translated and Ken Liu really kept the story flowing and engaging in English, as much as I can believe it is in its original Chinese. It was also great for me to read a book set in China and learning a lot about it as I went.