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A review by husnaibrahim_
Daughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn Tan
1.75
I hate when the saying ‘don’t judge a book by it’s cover’ proves to be true because this is exactly the situation I find myself in. I bought this book because it’s cover was so beautiful and I in turn was hoping the inside would match up, but, well, it left me kind of disappointed.
I can’t exactly call it a bad book, but I can’t say it’s a great one either, at least not for me. It’s got something to do with how it’s written and also the chemistry between the characters. It feels like it’s aimed at a much younger audience than it was marketed as.
I really liked Xingyin’s mother, and I think I would’ve loved it if the story was more about her. But I couldn’t really get into Xingyin herself or the Emperor’s son, which is a bit weird because, well, the book’s supposed to be about them, right? And why didn’t we see more of Chang’e? I thought she’d be a big deal since the title kind of points to that.
Then there’s the whole love triangle thing. It wasn’t even done well, at all. Weirdly, I found myself kind of liking Wenzhi more because of that whole mysterious slash demon prince angle. Because the relationship between the two main mc’s itself wasn’t developed properly. There was no depth to it at all and it felt so shallow. We weren’t pulled into it anticipating and giggling. And the whole possessive angle didn’t work and only made him very annoying. Their love interest thing seemed like talk more than any real buildup.
Everything just felt too superficial? And we didn’t get that intensive surge of emotions when the action hit because, you know, we weren’t really taken through it as well. Even what they described afterward felt way too unrealistic. Yeah, I get she’s got powers and all, but she can’t be invincible, right? It’s all just too unrealistic when you take into account her physic. She fights like she’s been training for centuries and then somehow nothing ever goes wrong for her. Even after that shoulder incident, she just kept going. Like Idk I just really disliked so many things about this book and I can’t help pointing it out.
So yeah the plot was all over the place. It’s like they put freeing Xingyin’s mother on the backburner and just piled on all these side quests. Like freeing Liwei’s bethrothed and fighting with the army and what not. That’s all fine and cool if it didn’t seem like fillers because the quest to free her mother felt so short in comparison to all these other stuff. And by the time her mother’s finally free, I just didn’t care anymore. I mean, at that point, I’d lost track of the plot. It was all over the map.
What I did like however was Chang’e, the Moon goddess, she was pretty cool. And the world-building? That was awesome too because I’m a fan of Asian retellings. The writing was pretty, but it would’ve been nice if it was less stuffy and formal, especially when it came to Xingyin and her supposed ‘romance’
I can’t exactly call it a bad book, but I can’t say it’s a great one either, at least not for me. It’s got something to do with how it’s written and also the chemistry between the characters. It feels like it’s aimed at a much younger audience than it was marketed as.
I really liked Xingyin’s mother, and I think I would’ve loved it if the story was more about her. But I couldn’t really get into Xingyin herself or the Emperor’s son, which is a bit weird because, well, the book’s supposed to be about them, right? And why didn’t we see more of Chang’e? I thought she’d be a big deal since the title kind of points to that.
Then there’s the whole love triangle thing. It wasn’t even done well, at all. Weirdly, I found myself kind of liking Wenzhi more because of that whole mysterious slash demon prince angle. Because the relationship between the two main mc’s itself wasn’t developed properly. There was no depth to it at all and it felt so shallow. We weren’t pulled into it anticipating and giggling. And the whole possessive angle didn’t work and only made him very annoying. Their love interest thing seemed like talk more than any real buildup.
Everything just felt too superficial? And we didn’t get that intensive surge of emotions when the action hit because, you know, we weren’t really taken through it as well. Even what they described afterward felt way too unrealistic. Yeah, I get she’s got powers and all, but she can’t be invincible, right? It’s all just too unrealistic when you take into account her physic. She fights like she’s been training for centuries and then somehow nothing ever goes wrong for her. Even after that shoulder incident, she just kept going. Like Idk I just really disliked so many things about this book and I can’t help pointing it out.
So yeah the plot was all over the place. It’s like they put freeing Xingyin’s mother on the backburner and just piled on all these side quests. Like freeing Liwei’s bethrothed and fighting with the army and what not. That’s all fine and cool if it didn’t seem like fillers because the quest to free her mother felt so short in comparison to all these other stuff. And by the time her mother’s finally free, I just didn’t care anymore. I mean, at that point, I’d lost track of the plot. It was all over the map.
What I did like however was Chang’e, the Moon goddess, she was pretty cool. And the world-building? That was awesome too because I’m a fan of Asian retellings. The writing was pretty, but it would’ve been nice if it was less stuffy and formal, especially when it came to Xingyin and her supposed ‘romance’