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The Summer Palace

C.S. Pacat

4.38 AVERAGE

s4r1's review

4.0
emotional hopeful inspiring reflective relaxing medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
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hunnyblood's review

4.5
adventurous lighthearted medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
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leilithunder_reads's review

5.0
emotional relaxing fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character

dodoreadsbooks's review

3.75
emotional lighthearted medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: N/A
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
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namorgan's review

4.0

a sweet epilogue. the one thing I disliked was
SpoilerLaurent telling the story of Auguste and Damen's fight at Marlas and saying Damen dropped his sword and Auguste gave him time to pick it up because he was noble or something. I feel like that little bit of info should have been mentioned either in the main trilogy or not at all. The Damen x Auguste fight is so important to the main story, it feels strange to be added into a short. (unless it was thrown into the main books and I missed it? I don't remember reading something like that though) Damen won because he is a skilled fighter and Auguste, though just as skilled, had been tired from battle. Idk why that detail cheapened the fight for me. Maybe because we see in three books how skilled Damen is at fighting, in a class of his own, so when I read he dropped his sword in their fight I was like huh? I know he was younger then, but it still felt like a weird detail to add. It felt randomly thrown in to give Auguste more credit maybe? And I don't know much about sword fighting but if you're in a war w/ someone idk why you'd deliberately let your opponent pick their sword back up especially when you know you're tired of fighting and your opponent is fresh. Like I know your fair and just or whatever but that just seems stupid to do lol
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heartstrings's review

5.0
hopeful lighthearted reflective fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
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luciaprdo's review

4.0

pascoto's review

5.0

Oh god I'm so fucking in love
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misssusan's review

3.0

ahh bless this fluff, bless their love, bless the upcoming jokaste story

(look i'm hoping if i state my need for a jokaste story frequently enough c. s. pacat will sense my desire in the ether and fulfill it)

3 stars

gelisvb's review

3.0

This will be exactly wht you think it will be. Why three stars? Because it was what I was expecting, not better and not worse. It would be better if in the next edition instead of having it as a separate novella, it became the epilogue of the third book.