maidinnah 's review for:

美人剑 (The Beauty's Blade) by 封刃作书

DID NOT FINISH: 19%

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Could chalk it up to being translation issues and general unfamiliarity with the genre on my part. I only made it about 20% of the way through before DNF’ing, so entirely possible the novel stitched together a coherent plot. I found the main characters not all that compelling and their behavior ludicrous. The premise of a wuxia sapphic rivals-to-lovers with a fire-and-ice dynamic so promising, but it needs to be supported by two likeable leads, fun action sequences, and a consistent tone-of-voice, which this novel sorely lacked.