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adventurous
dark
mysterious
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
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Interesting. Mildly racist or xenophobic in making the tribe kinda simplistic war mongerers but what do i know about intra asian racism. Very few women and very stereotyped. Decent horror. More mystery and gore than anything else. The chapter thirty seven and onwards explain everything if you just want to know the plot.
It's got a terrible portrayal of psychiatric institions. Also made up mental illnesses.
Also oh yeah it's pretty bad copaganda.
Lastly it's competently written but uh, not the best. Very show, don't tell, pretty superficial.
major ableism, confinement, copaganda, death, drowning, gore, gun violence, medical content, parental death, police, prisons, religion, self harm, spiders, suicide, war
medium insects, blood, torture,
minor alcohol, cannibalism, genocide,
Interesting. Mildly racist or xenophobic in making the tribe kinda simplistic war mongerers but what do i know about intra asian racism. Very few women and very stereotyped. Decent horror. More mystery and gore than anything else. The chapter thirty seven and onwards explain everything if you just want to know the plot.
It's got a terrible portrayal of psychiatric institions. Also made up mental illnesses.
Also oh yeah it's pretty bad copaganda.
Lastly it's competently written but uh, not the best. Very show, don't tell, pretty superficial.
major ableism, confinement, copaganda, death, drowning, gore, gun violence, medical content, parental death, police, prisons, religion, self harm, spiders, suicide, war
medium insects, blood, torture,
minor alcohol, cannibalism, genocide,
Content Warnings
Graphic: Ableism, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Gun violence, Medical content, Self harm, Alcohol, Suicide, War, and Blood
Moderate: Blood and Torture
Minor: Genocide, Alcohol, and Cannibalism
kateofmind's review
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.25
This is a quick pulpy potboiler stretched out to long novel length, but not for the reasons you might expect. Not a lot of energy is spent on characters' back stories or complex inner lives; they are mostly figurants enacting a captial P Plot. And there's a lot of Plot in this story of a wave of sanity-destroying terror hitting a medium sized Chinese city with its origins in a remote mountain village, where figures from Ming/Qing era Chinese history once did heroic and terrible deeds and possibly also captured and contained a demonic force that seems to have been unleashed in modern times! The tension between this being a supernatural horror story disguised as a Sherlock Holmesian detective story, or a detective story disguised as supernatural horror, is maintained almost all the way to the end, so I forgive a lot of flimsy characterization and Sudden Feats of Acuity. The best feature is its incorporation of Chinese history into its plot; the worst is its tendency to describe characters as having Trustworthy Faces, as though physiognomy denotes virtue or vice (ick), and a lot more attention to how Wise and Respectable everybody is. A decent, but not a brilliant, read.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Murder, Violence, and War
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