4.53 AVERAGE

adventurous dark emotional mysterious medium-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: Yes
adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious sad tense 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: Yes
adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
adventurous challenging dark emotional funny inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense 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: Yes
adventurous challenging emotional funny mysterious tense medium-paced
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous challenging dark funny reflective 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: Yes
adventurous emotional funny mysterious slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous dark emotional funny tense 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: Yes

Parts of this hit pretty hard, maybe it's the translation but it felt like some characters could've been more elaborated on. Nonetheless a fun read, although it's a bit slow in the in beginning arcs and the second half is what makes it for me. Not a fan of the erotica here, for the most part but to each his own or whatever. I think maybe if I hadn't watched the donghua first this would've wowed me. I went into it with my expectations high sine everyone kept saying that the donghua missed some things and tbf it did and there are some parts that I wish had been adapted but the novel didn't go as in depth into those parts as I wanted. It could be a translation thing but I also felt it was a bit too...straightforward? As far as the narration, Wei Wuxian is a bit too straightforward apart from his memory issues, I guess I'm just more used to her more unreliable narrators. There are parts where he's obviously lying but for the most part he's a bit too easy to read imho. Idk, maybe I'll give it some time to forget how the plot goes so I can go into this without most of my biases but for now this in a weird place of being technically well written but not something I'm in a hurry to reread.