Books

I read the entire trilogy a couple of years ago and I'll say a couple of things about it: the big ideas are great and the plot is interesting but the characters and the actual mechanics of the writing are solidly mediocre at times. I'm not sure if that's down to the translation between languages (Ken Liu's two translations are much better than the middle book IMO) or just the style of the novels but it's definitely a pain point for the series.

Parts of the later books read like bad western SF from the 60s or 70s and some of the later themes are ridiculously reactionary. Like women being incapable of aggressive choices necessary for survival or the feminized men who are incapable in general. There's some large scale human social critique involved later that's 100% on point but I won't spoil that for you.

It's definitely worth reading, pieces of the trilogy are great, but it also goes in decidedly reactionary directions as well. It's sort of like reading Ringworld at times - neat concepts, odd social commentary.