Ok, talk about The Three Body Problem is cropping up again, so:

If I got completely bodied by the Chinese cultural history and ended up lost inside the first few chapters, if I just push through, does it get better? Is it like other sci-fi where you're meant to be confused and then by the end you get what's going on, only this time it's real history/culture instead of confusing fake org charts and technobabble?

I bounced off that AND This Is How You Lose The Time War around the same time, albeit for different reasons, and felt bad. 😭