Reviews - Heavenly Tyrant | The StoryGraph

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Heavenly Tyrant

Xiran Jay Zhao

3.98 AVERAGE

imlizgen's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

charmingminx's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative inspiring sad tense medium-paced

jakinabook's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

leftofspring's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous hopeful informative inspiring tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

mksultra's review against another edition

4.0

As far as adventure stories go, this was fantastic. Is it a bit heavy handed at times? Yeah. But still a good time. I’ll read the next one when it’s out.

red_yuu_wrote_yuu's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

jamon's review against another edition

5.0

challenging emotional 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: Yes

This book, much like the first one, had me working to dissect my own emotions and beliefs as I read it. I think it built phenomenally from the first, exploring what the price and definition of freedom is as an individual and as a nation. I think its exploration of intersectional experiences in a society with deeply rooted evils was very rich. But I think the central relationship in the book takes the cake as the most interesting part of the book. The fact that it takes you on a journey that ends with you as a reader as conflicted as the protagonist about how to handle it at the end of the book is testament to what an accomplishment this story is.