A review by tokiberry
The Sword of Kaigen by M.L. Wang

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring 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? It's complicated

5.0

The Sword of Kaigen
⤷ ⭑⭑⭑⭑⭑

✶⋆.˚ “Most strong things are rigid. If you are water, you can shift to fit any mold and freeze yourself strong. You can be strong in any shape. You can be anything.”


I pushed back reading this book because of how overwhelming it felt.. Once I finished it, I was flooded with emotion. The world-building, characters, and flow were perfect. What a masterpiece! I felt like I couldn’t stop reading once we got to the war scene because despite not knowing much about certain characters, you’d feel attached to the village and the villagers once everything went down. M.L. Wang’s portrayal of the characters’ emotions of pain and loss is so vivid that you can almost feel the heartache and sorrow of these characters.

I highly encourage readers to immerse themselves in this remarkable work.

❝ Wholeness, she had learned, was not the absence of pain but the ability to hold it. ❞ ꕤ


୭ ˚.⁺⊹ .ᐟ

₊⊹ post-read: i’m not surprised that this is a five. but wow, oh, wow. what an amazing read.
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