Reviews - The Emperor and the Endless Palace

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The Emperor and the Endless Palace

Justinian Huang

3.53 AVERAGE

chelsi_the_bibliophile's review

4.25

adventurous mysterious sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

alannajill's review against another edition

3.5

emotional mysterious fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

blackusagii's review

5.0

emotional mysterious 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

The way the 3 timelines are woven in together, the reveals and the retelling of stories and history… wow. the ending was melancholic and honestly it’s been a minute since i’ve read something that didn’t have a happy ending, but it was very fitting. i knew the origin of the first timeline, but i didn’t know the name or time period, so when i finally connected the dots i GASPED!!! all the dots finally started connecting.

one of the big reason that i bought this is that i read a lot of danmei, which i like, but is primarily written by women. it’s important to me to support queer stories by queer writers as well!! so i was happy to see a story about queer asian men written by a queer asian man being advertised to me. you ate that Justinian Huang!

linnzb's review

3.5

adventurous mysterious fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

tenderorganic's review

4.25

This was a really charming book that had a few editorial issues that really pulled me out of it at times (American English speakers are not NOT speaking without using contractions [unless for emphasis, as proven here]). The world building was quite lovely, and the mystery of

who was who in each timeline

was well handled; I had a solid grip on it by the reveal but I didn't feel like it was too easy or too difficult to figure out on your own. Overall a really pleasant read.