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A review by kikibug13
Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu
4.0
This has been a wild ride, not in the least because waiting impatiently for translations (and blessing the people who do them) is its own kind of torture. It has gotten me to learn a lot of new things, about worlds and people both imagined and real.
It's an adventure. It's a (boy+boy) love story. It's a story of bad things happening to good people and good people trying to cope, and some of them maybe going bad because of that. It's a story of a lot of broken people, in a dozen different ways. It's a story of families, blood and found both. It's about kindness and cruelty, and about mob mentality, conformism, manipulation, honesty, purity, kindness... a lot of unhappiness and pain, and brilliant joy and unsuppressable joi-de-vivre.
Is it perfect? Not even remotely. Is it engaging? Yes. Are the characters interesting, and ones I want to spend hours upon hours (113 chapters averaging around 7-8k words a chapter is A Lot of words) with? Yup.
I picked this up as a way to rest my mind from pre-Christmas-vacation work sprint (of three months) and expected oversocialization, and it did all that, and some more.
Would I recommend it? Unless the person in question is looking for something to wow them with quality, yes.
It's an adventure. It's a (boy+boy) love story. It's a story of bad things happening to good people and good people trying to cope, and some of them maybe going bad because of that. It's a story of a lot of broken people, in a dozen different ways. It's a story of families, blood and found both. It's about kindness and cruelty, and about mob mentality, conformism, manipulation, honesty, purity, kindness... a lot of unhappiness and pain, and brilliant joy and unsuppressable joi-de-vivre.
Is it perfect? Not even remotely. Is it engaging? Yes. Are the characters interesting, and ones I want to spend hours upon hours (113 chapters averaging around 7-8k words a chapter is A Lot of words) with? Yup.
I picked this up as a way to rest my mind from pre-Christmas-vacation work sprint (of three months) and expected oversocialization, and it did all that, and some more.
Would I recommend it? Unless the person in question is looking for something to wow them with quality, yes.