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3.92 AVERAGE
3.92 AVERAGE
adventurous
challenging
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
reflective
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
4.5/5 ⭐️
This book was awesome! The world and the characters were amazing. I couldn’t stop reading it. And the relationship between the MC and the love interest, I was giggling my feet like a little girl! This book got me out of my reading slump! Now my only thing I didn’t like the book, is that the love interest was introduced in the middle of the book, I maybe wrong since my memory sucks. But I highly recommend this book. And there nothing inappropriate like the rest of the YA books. They kissed and stuff but no smut at all. So this is my review and I hope everyone else enjoys it as well!
Bye!
-Savvy
This book was awesome! The world and the characters were amazing. I couldn’t stop reading it. And the relationship between the MC and the love interest, I was giggling my feet like a little girl! This book got me out of my reading slump! Now my only thing I didn’t like the book, is that the love interest was introduced in the middle of the book, I maybe wrong since my memory sucks. But I highly recommend this book. And there nothing inappropriate like the rest of the YA books. They kissed and stuff but no smut at all. So this is my review and I hope everyone else enjoys it as well!
Bye!
-Savvy
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
adventurous
emotional
funny
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
"Mädchen" gibt sich als ihr Bruder aus, um Hofschneider zu werden im Palast des Kaisers. Dabei stellt ihr die ganze Zeit der ach-so-mystische Hofmagier nach, der sie ja sofort meeeega interessant findet. Needless to say, hab die Romanze null gefühlt. In meinem Kopf ist er einfach n erwachsener Mann (weil er ist halt 500+ als Magier, mir egal wie jung er dabei aussieht) und sie n Kind (...sie wird halt auch die ganze Zeit als Mädchen bezeichnet! Sag doch wenigstens "Frau"! Wobei... Andere Rezensionen sagen sie ist gerade mal 18 oder 19??? Kind.).
Ansonsten ist sie so "Nur weil ich ein Mädchen bin heißt das nicht, dass ich das nicht kann!!!" und dann rettet ihr Shadow Daddy sie aber permanent. Ok I get dass sie in einer Welt lebt, die ihr auch wenig Erfolg und Eigenleistung zugesteht, also vielleicht ist das realistisch. Aber dass sie für diesen Charakter dann bereit ist, mal eben alles wegzuschmeißen, Kleine du kennst den erst seit eben gerade...Und dann ist es einfach ne flache Romanze, keine 2. Ebene der Kritik oder so ersichtlich.
Also was ist eigentlich die Aussage hier?
Aber immerhin ist sie zufällig nebenbei professionelle Schachspielerin, ja ne is klar.
Ansonsten ist sie so "Nur weil ich ein Mädchen bin heißt das nicht, dass ich das nicht kann!!!" und dann rettet ihr Shadow Daddy sie aber permanent. Ok I get dass sie in einer Welt lebt, die ihr auch wenig Erfolg und Eigenleistung zugesteht, also vielleicht ist das realistisch. Aber dass sie für diesen Charakter dann bereit ist, mal eben alles wegzuschmeißen, Kleine du kennst den erst seit eben gerade...Und dann ist es einfach ne flache Romanze, keine 2. Ebene der Kritik oder so ersichtlich.
Also was ist eigentlich die Aussage hier?
Aber immerhin ist sie zufällig nebenbei professionelle Schachspielerin, ja ne is klar.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Grief, Death of parent
Minor: Death, Torture
Ugh I wanted to like this so badly but goddamnit!! It was so wrong in so many ways!!
I had high expectations for this book cuz of the mulan-inspired backdrop (girl disguises herself as her brother to save her family) chinese culture (women being confined to motherly roles etc) and the skill of tailoring (sewing, stitching, embroidery, so interesting!!). I just feel like it’s much too simple/superficial given the incidents that had happened (e.g., I felt that her brothers passing away due to war wasn’t handled well, the grief/mourning for them was so surface-level, there wasn’t any description of intense agony/anguish or the kind of emotional scars it leaves on someone NOTHING, just sad and ok move on like HUH?)
and also I noticed sth weird abt the author’s writing in the sense that she TELLS the readers what happens in a very kiddish, primary school way lol. Just like oh no! Someone spilled tea on my shawl! And a line from the book “But as I looked up - there, behind a magnolia tree, was the emperor!” Like huh, u playing peek-a-boo with him or what? Felt like Dora the fking explorer, like what on earth was that? It throws me off damn badly (the ! rly doesn’t help either lol) and I just feel like the book so far doesn’t have much depth to it. Maybe cuz I’m expecting more given the heavy topics this book deals with (loss, discrimination, and even just Chinese customs) which carries more depth to it that this book fails to capture.
It’s like a simple book for young children imo, or maybe cuz I’ve read Iron Widow…and nothing Chinese culture related will ever come close to it haha. There was rly zero world building, then there’s war and politics at the beginning then eh suddenly got magic also, like dafuq is going on. Anyway, terrible!
I had high expectations for this book cuz of the mulan-inspired backdrop (girl disguises herself as her brother to save her family) chinese culture (women being confined to motherly roles etc) and the skill of tailoring (sewing, stitching, embroidery, so interesting!!). I just feel like it’s much too simple/superficial given the incidents that had happened (e.g., I felt that her brothers passing away due to war wasn’t handled well, the grief/mourning for them was so surface-level, there wasn’t any description of intense agony/anguish or the kind of emotional scars it leaves on someone NOTHING, just sad and ok move on like HUH?)
and also I noticed sth weird abt the author’s writing in the sense that she TELLS the readers what happens in a very kiddish, primary school way lol. Just like oh no! Someone spilled tea on my shawl! And a line from the book “But as I looked up - there, behind a magnolia tree, was the emperor!” Like huh, u playing peek-a-boo with him or what? Felt like Dora the fking explorer, like what on earth was that? It throws me off damn badly (the ! rly doesn’t help either lol) and I just feel like the book so far doesn’t have much depth to it. Maybe cuz I’m expecting more given the heavy topics this book deals with (loss, discrimination, and even just Chinese customs) which carries more depth to it that this book fails to capture.
It’s like a simple book for young children imo, or maybe cuz I’ve read Iron Widow…and nothing Chinese culture related will ever come close to it haha. There was rly zero world building, then there’s war and politics at the beginning then eh suddenly got magic also, like dafuq is going on. Anyway, terrible!
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
adventurous
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
