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yuanct 's review for:
Bitter Medicine
by Mia Tsai
I had suuuuch high hopes for this book bc the concept sounded so good and I love the world building but the characters were so boring (author tried so hard to make them morally gray but it didn’t work at all and the only morally interesting character (Yiwu) who was supposed to be a villain was barely in the book) and the romance was soooooo boring and rushed (I literally docked a star for how the relationship ended up at the end of the book it was so rushed and stupid).
There were so many plot holes — it felt like every time there was a vaguely interesting plot line, the author skipped past wrapping it up to get back to the boring romance (eg Yiwu?? the main plot of the entire first half of the book?? never wrapped up. The parents? Basically didn’t exist. Oldcastle?? So many plot points hinted at and never carried out). And the magic systems were really cool EXCEPT the right of dominion shit which was soo OP and not well fleshed out at all
The prose was nice but the dialogue was so terribly written and cringe and unbelievable, it ruined the writing overall for me. Such a huge disappointment.
There were so many plot holes — it felt like every time there was a vaguely interesting plot line, the author skipped past wrapping it up to get back to the boring romance (eg Yiwu?? the main plot of the entire first half of the book?? never wrapped up. The parents? Basically didn’t exist. Oldcastle?? So many plot points hinted at and never carried out). And the magic systems were really cool EXCEPT the right of dominion shit which was soo OP and not well fleshed out at all
The prose was nice but the dialogue was so terribly written and cringe and unbelievable, it ruined the writing overall for me. Such a huge disappointment.