161 reviews for:

Kaleidoscope of Death

Xi Zi Xu

4.45 AVERAGE


It would have been 2.5 had it not been for the ending because I really did not see that coming
the fact that quishi was "senior" from obsidian who had almost completed the 12th door, the actual leader of obsidian who would've completed his 12th door had it not been for nanzhu's wish to relive all that by quishi's side was a little too shocking for me. Now as much as it shocked me doesn't mean I'm pretty happy with it. The thing is, the quishi we follow belives no one truly loved him before nanzhu (which again is the main premise on why I even liked their relationship because he proved he wanted to always be by quishi's side) and you put it in my face that oh well quishi had a loving relationship with everyone, nanzhu just wanted to live with quishi so he took everything from quishi and made him redo it all which really left a bitter feeling in my heart for the ship. Is the twist great from a story perspective? yup! Does it crumble the credibility of the trials they went through? Also yes.

I also did not like how the side characters were not placed in much importance and we rarely got to see them except main couple as if the entire story existed just to feed dog food which I won't mind most of the time if side characters feel human but honestly apart from cheng siblings, everyone else (zaozao and dongyuan included) did not feel real fleshed out character. Having side characters have a job does not make them good side characters btw. And I think in that respect the drama did way better because atleast the side characters left so much impression and had so much substance to them as characters
and their deaths actually mattered and made sense in drama unlike the book where they couldn't care less about the dead 2 hours after the characters died.
dark emotional mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
adventurous dark emotional mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
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Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
adventurous dark tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

I have been reading this for a whole month now. It’s the longest time I have ever spent on a book. It was a great read. I was NEVER bored not once -I skim-read the “eleventh door” because I was just tired- I highly recommend reading it if you like mystery, horror and entertaining books. It was 50% horror 50% funny. If you decide to read this BE READY for an unexpected ending it’s HE but still UNEXPECTED. I would have rated this 5 stars but it was SO unnecessary long. Honestly 120 chapters would have been enough. 

I'm gonna miss it