104 reviews for:

Qiang Jin Jiu: Ballad of Sword and Wine [将进酒]

Tang Jiu Qing

4.64 AVERAGE

amaihe8's review

5.0

adventurous challenging dark tense 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: Complicated

buokworm's review

5.0

adventurous challenging emotional funny mysterious tense 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: No

shayy's review

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

melizzya's review

5.0

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One of my favorite novels ever. It cost me all of my braincells to understand all the shemes and politics but years later I still keep Shen Zechuan and Xiao Chiye in my heart. 

daydream88's review

5.0

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

noheaswearingen's review

5.0

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Wahhhhh I’m actually so sad rn … this novel was heavily political and at times I would get lost due to the amount of complexity surrounding the plot but the more I read the more I understood. Qjj is one of those novels that just get better and better with each chapter and the world building was beautiful as well as the relationships between each of the characters.

Shen Zechuan and Xiao Chiye

yuzuuka's review

DID NOT FINISH: 68%

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Will read later in the year

simplyivo's review

5.0

adventurous emotional tense 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

thursdaygirls's review

4.5

adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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I often feel as if many works that are initially published as web novels suffer upon their traditional release as the pacing, often more juvenile and simplistic writing style struggle in the classic format yet Tang Jiuqing manages to avoid the former pitfalls in this exemplary work. With the world itself being mostly lifted from Ming Dynasty China there is the benefit of easily available and thus comprehensible world building to both author and reader. This basis is what allows for the rich cast of characters to be developed with almost the entirety of them undergoing complete arcs within the story that are also relevant to the plot itself. 

Also all my gratitude and compliments to the team of fan translators who put together the works, it is some of the best fan based efforts i have ever read and seven seas will have to work hard to top it. Looking forward to getting my hand on the first official english release this summer !!

jasongrace's review

5.0

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this is genuinely one of the best books i've ever read EVER.