angelsbeforeman 's review for:

Bitter Medicine by Mia Tsai

2.75

adventurous medium-paced

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i was so excited for this :( the chinese medicine magic seemed so cool to me and i so badly wish it was executed better. the worldbuilding is a huge problem because literally nothing is explained enough so it just makes you confused about so much. the other issue is the extremely disorganised and messy pacing. pretty much all over the place and keeps switching up. elle was a good character on her own, but i found myself not caring about luc. the romance was ... meh? i disliked the sex scenes but i never expect to like them so that's fine i suppose. overall, really good theme but lacking in execution.