A review by levtolstoy
She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny inspiring reflective tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

A great story about a nameless girl destined for Nothingness fighting to make the fate of Greatness hers.

Rent: I absolutely loved reading about Zhu's journey towards the Greatness, but I hated the ending. Ouyang's ending was heartbreaking, but befitting. I may not completely understand it ('cause no one slaughter my entire family), but I get it. I see his reasoning. But Zhu, umm... She uses people as tools and I disagree with that. She completely disregards people that love her and care about her. Xu Da and Ma Xiuying love her and Zhu knows that and she also knows that they will follow her till the end and she uses that. It's fine if achieving Greatness will cause her immense pain and suffering, but she knows that it will also cause them immense pain and suffering and she STill chooses to proceed. That's not what you do for people YOU love and care about.


Also, she killed a fuck8ng child. I don't care if he is aware of all his previous lives or whatever, he is still a 8-year old.
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