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A review by kxiong5
The Story of the Stone, Volume II: The Crab-Flower Club, Chapters 27-53 by Cao Xueqin
5.0
I do miss the Buddhist monk and the Taoist pulling all these monk-ex-machinas from the start, but the economic strain is showing! So is the class conflict! So is just the daily life of this story??? So is just...normal relationship development between the girls, damnit, I just want to like Daiyu and it ONLY starts happening when we get to see more from her than her just being petty about Baoyu >:( but that’s just my salt.
I honestly can’t believe I like this novel so much?? The hell?? I thought this was gonna be good but not THIS good???and it’s stayed this good and just kept transforming/doing cool new things I didn’t expect it to do??? I didn’t know I’d like courtly intrigue at all—maybe just Bc I like Baoyu more than I like Genji gdhfjsks no offense Genji but you get so much less assumed interiority than Baoyu just because you’re such a fucking mess and Bc Baoyu is only 13 while you are a grown-ass man and treated and act like it.
I honestly can’t believe I like this novel so much?? The hell?? I thought this was gonna be good but not THIS good???and it’s stayed this good and just kept transforming/doing cool new things I didn’t expect it to do??? I didn’t know I’d like courtly intrigue at all—maybe just Bc I like Baoyu more than I like Genji gdhfjsks no offense Genji but you get so much less assumed interiority than Baoyu just because you’re such a fucking mess and Bc Baoyu is only 13 while you are a grown-ass man and treated and act like it.