A review by ssyx
天官赐福 [Heaven Official's Blessing] by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

adventurous emotional funny inspiring mysterious reflective tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

my review is not going to do justice to how much these novels mean to me. i finished tgcf over a year ago and it’s still my favorite read ever. i’ve reread all of the books twice, read the manhua, and have watched s1 of the donghua an embarrassing amount of times. tgcf means so much to me i can barely put it to words.

xie lian is my favorite main character ever. period. in anything i’ve watched or read i can say with confidence xie lian is my favorite. he’s smart, funny, competent, and compassionate. he understands the ugliness of the world and how evil and cruel it can be
sigh book 4 sigh
but he still remains true to himself and sticks with what he believes in. he’s definitely a “looks like a cinnamon roll, could kill you” type of character and i love that for him. 

hua cheng is a cool mf. everything about him is cool af. i would say i’m xie lians #1 fan but i couldn’t take hua cheng in a fight. i love him. he literally invented love. he’s one of the coolest characters i’ve ever read about
(which to be fair he had 800 years where he solely practiced not being a loser so he could rizz up xie lian)
he’s smart, he’s funny, it’s powerful af, and he’s be through everything with xie lian and will continue to go through everything with xie lian.

there are so many thematic and character parallels in tgcf and it’s so cool to go through the book and notice all of them
most prominent one to me is hua cheng’s obsession with xie lian compared to jun wu(fuck u jun wu i hope ur suffering)


something about tgcf that is different from other books i’ve read is i actually give a shit about the side characters storylines. i loved reading about the backstories of all of the gods and the ghosts.
beefleaf you will always be iconic and they can have a happy ending ur delusional enough


i’ve written so much and i haven’t even gotten to how good the plot is yet. but i’ll spare the details because to no one’s surprise i loved it as well. it’s 750k words and it still felt too short because i loved it so much. also some also bangers quotes.
edgar allan poe has been real quiet since “what matters is ‘you’ not the state of you” dropped


anyways i love tgcf and i want all of the books tattooed into my brain.

tldr: god is gay and is married to the devil
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