Reviews - Ballad of Sword and Wine: Qiang Jin Jiu (Novel) Vol. 1

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Ballad of Sword and Wine: Qiang Jin Jiu (Novel) Vol. 1

Tang Jiu Qing

4.39 AVERAGE

emptysparkles's review

4.0

tense slow-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: Complicated

abiz222's review

4.0

dark sad tense slow-paced

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

To start off--I do really like this book and I want to rate it higher but I can't. The characters were interesting and seeing the two MC's relationship develop is really fun but my god I must be dumb. There were so many pages where I was just completely lost on the plot. Don't get me wrong, by the end, I did feel like I had an ok understanding of the story but that might be giving me too much credit. When I first bought this book many months ago, I got to page 52 before dropping it. Now I managed to get through it, mildly to very confused the whole way. I really want to love this story because so many other danmei fans do but this book drained me and I still don't understand who the prince is and why some guy killed him years ago or why it matters in the first place.

Will I be reading the rest of the books? Yes of course. Will I understand it? Absolutely not.

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wheel_of_mushroom's review

4.0

emotional funny tense medium-paced

cybellebillie's review

4.25

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

spoogs's review

3.0

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

There are a lot of politics going on, and everyone is playing their own games. I'm curious to see how they'll all tie together. A little bit of a slow start, and a little hard to follow with so many family names.