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A review by shirin_mandi
The Scarlet Alchemist by Kylie Lee Baker
3.0
My eight-year-old cousin's telling me that I just become like an old lady, very old...
Do I really get old for this, or is this just the terrible cold that causes me to want to smash my head against the wall or drown myself because of these very casual conversations?! childish heroine?! Oh, I'm not even going to talk about her first love, what was that?!
Asian fantasy has one my favorite genre for a few years now, but should I really consider giving up on it, the rude teenage girls who want to save the world and the story always seem like the previous ones more than to have something new!?
With that start you may find 3 stars too high, first, I have caught a very bad cold, and I'm angry don't know why exactly, and second in this case, I'm curious enough to read the second book, even the ending was to ... I don't know, unbelievable, I was like, and now so what?! and third, It had its sparks, its tale about alchemy, gemstones, immortal empress and the dead walk back to earth.
In the year 775 in Guangzhou, China, when imperial alchemists were creating an elixir of immortality, a young country girl named Zilan despises her Scotian father for naming her after cheap flowers and abandoning her and her sick mother. To make ends meet and save money for imperial exams and ventures to the capital, Zilan resorts to using her father's notes and does the forbidden art of reviving the dead.
I liked the part that was about the stones and their powers, you see, the story wouldn't have been so frustrating if I hadn't had to read much about her fuss and arguing.
"You cannot create good without also creating evil. That was alchemy’s key truth. Surely new life came at a great cost."
She eventually ventures to the capital for imperial exams (ring a bell?!), and guess who will fall in love with her?! And the rest of the story that I suggest you read besides my harsh judgment and very hope you like it more than I did.
Thanks to Hodder & Stoughton for ARC via NetGalley, I have given my honest review.
Do I really get old for this, or is this just the terrible cold that causes me to want to smash my head against the wall or drown myself because of these very casual conversations?! childish heroine?! Oh, I'm not even going to talk about her first love, what was that?!
Asian fantasy has one my favorite genre for a few years now, but should I really consider giving up on it, the rude teenage girls who want to save the world and the story always seem like the previous ones more than to have something new!?
With that start you may find 3 stars too high, first, I have caught a very bad cold, and I'm angry don't know why exactly, and second in this case, I'm curious enough to read the second book, even the ending was to ... I don't know, unbelievable, I was like, and now so what?! and third, It had its sparks, its tale about alchemy, gemstones, immortal empress and the dead walk back to earth.
In the year 775 in Guangzhou, China, when imperial alchemists were creating an elixir of immortality, a young country girl named Zilan despises her Scotian father for naming her after cheap flowers and abandoning her and her sick mother. To make ends meet and save money for imperial exams and ventures to the capital, Zilan resorts to using her father's notes and does the forbidden art of reviving the dead.
I liked the part that was about the stones and their powers, you see, the story wouldn't have been so frustrating if I hadn't had to read much about her fuss and arguing.
"You cannot create good without also creating evil. That was alchemy’s key truth. Surely new life came at a great cost."
She eventually ventures to the capital for imperial exams (ring a bell?!), and guess who will fall in love with her?! And the rest of the story that I suggest you read besides my harsh judgment and very hope you like it more than I did.
Thanks to Hodder & Stoughton for ARC via NetGalley, I have given my honest review.