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The Scarlet Alchemist

Kylie Lee Baker

4.08 AVERAGE

eggie's review against another edition

4.0

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this was better than i thought it would be. zilan is mildly annoying, but she's trying to fight against rich people so-- but the slight romance between her and hong felt sorta outta left field. some of the prose in regards to the romance was really......stark? it kept pulling me out of the story. do i still want them together tho? ya. idk if i'll get around to book 2 anytime soon, but i do wanna know what shenanigans zilan goes thru. 

melissa_k_elliott's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional inspiring sad tense

eideticss's review

3.5

adventurous mysterious slow-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: No

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I was rlly intrigued by the 1st 10% of this book.. but between 10%-33% I was struggling to remain interested. It felt very much like there was too much backstory happening to help set up the rest of the book but it wasn’t interesting (IMO). Once I reached 33% the book started picking up and I LOVEEEED the rest of it. 

So glad I did not DNF. The author has a true penchant for writing so vividly. Also; there is a bit of slow burn (like the tiniest amount). The male love interest was a side character and didn’t become the main characters plot which I loved. 

_scathach_'s review against another edition

3.5

tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: N/A

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

neviot's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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: Yes

aisneedscoffee's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

librarianicole's review against another edition

4.0

medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

ame268's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous sad tense medium-paced

palnicki92's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous

becklovesbooks's review against another edition

4.5

dark emotional mysterious 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: Yes