Reviews

To Gaze Upon Wicked Gods by Molly X. Chang

cshahriary's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.25

on_auguries's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense

2.0

ifyougiveareaderabook's review

I thought I’d read this to know for myself in full how this book was but I can’t do this to myself. Thank you to those who stuck through for sharing bc that lets me know it’s not worth sticking with even for curiosity’s sake.

But like just 5% in and I can’t handle how bad this writing is on a sentence level. Sentences crafted in a way that make me need to reread and go ???, weird phrasing choices. Why can’t we just call it opium instead of opian? And I was getting annoyed already hearing the mc tell us everything lol.

brogansbooks's review against another edition

challenging dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

icki07's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

erikareads18's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

4.25

nerdythespian's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

5.0

nataliaalvarez26's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

reginanicolecky's review against another edition

dark emotional informative medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.5

corrinaababee's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense

5.0

This book, dude. I did enjoy reading this book. The author writes beautifully and describes the cynical survival mind beautifully. I couldn’t understand why, the rating was a low 3, while reading. I thought maybe it would be probably boring, or hard to follow in the writing style but no. However, I’ve feel like it’s because this book isn't for the weak. There is a lot of cynicism, sadness, tense turmoil, inner turmoil, and towing the line between survival and heroism.

There is not a happy ending in this book. It’s scary how good the book is but there isn’t a happy ending. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Genocide, and War