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Heaven Official's Blessing: Tian Guan Ci Fu (Novel) Vol. 8 by 墨香铜臭, Mo Xiang Tong Xiu
3.0
Unpopular opinion :
The extras should have been about other characters.
It should have been about Shi Qingxuan, Ling Wen, He Xuan, Yushi Huang, etc….. literally any characters other than Xie Lian and Hua Cheng!!!
No offense but I have hundreds of chapters and 8 volumes full of HuaLian. I love them but the extras should have explored more of the side characters.
Ling Wen got redeemed way too fast and I don’t even know what’s her story. What about Shi Qingxuan and He Xuan? Are they forever estranged now? Yushi Huang is so interesting (and I also ship her with Pei Ming tbh) but she barely got anything!
There are so much to tell about the side characters but no… let’s read more about HuaLian fucking. Like, I don’t care! I know they’re going to fuck. This series is about to end but I didn’t even got any contents for my favorite character (Shi Qingxuan)???
Also ENOUGH of ‘Xie Lian didn’t know whether to laugh or cry’.
Anyway, I started this fully expecting Xie Lian to be my favorite character and HuaLian to be my favorite romance. But now that it ends, I can say that I’m honestly more interested in other potential couples (Shi Qingxuan x He Xuan, Pei Ming x Yushi Huang etc) and Shi Qingxuan ends up being my real favorite.
I always love ‘kind characters who actively choose to be kind all the time’ so I was expecting to love Xie Lian but for some reason, Xie Lian isn’t like that to me. I like him when I read this series but I think I’ll be able to move on pretty easily. Instead it was Shi Qingxuan (also a kind character actively choosing to be kind) who became my favorite. It was Shi Qingxuan that made me search more fanfics and it was Shi Qingxuan that made me read posts in Twitter and Tumblr. I would even go far as to said that Black Water Arc is the best and most well written arc in this series. I was also pretty obsessed with beefleaf for a while.
I like this series and I do think MXTX is a good writer. At the same time, I think MXTX writing style is much more suited to visual media, for example an animation/donghua. It’s the reason I think the donghua adaptation is better than the novel. Overall, despite somethings didn’t meet my expectations, I still enjoyed this series.
The extras should have been about other characters.
It should have been about Shi Qingxuan, Ling Wen, He Xuan, Yushi Huang, etc….. literally any characters other than Xie Lian and Hua Cheng!!!
No offense but I have hundreds of chapters and 8 volumes full of HuaLian. I love them but the extras should have explored more of the side characters.
Ling Wen got redeemed way too fast and I don’t even know what’s her story. What about Shi Qingxuan and He Xuan? Are they forever estranged now? Yushi Huang is so interesting (and I also ship her with Pei Ming tbh) but she barely got anything!
There are so much to tell about the side characters but no… let’s read more about HuaLian fucking. Like, I don’t care! I know they’re going to fuck. This series is about to end but I didn’t even got any contents for my favorite character (Shi Qingxuan)???
Also ENOUGH of ‘Xie Lian didn’t know whether to laugh or cry’.
Anyway, I started this fully expecting Xie Lian to be my favorite character and HuaLian to be my favorite romance. But now that it ends, I can say that I’m honestly more interested in other potential couples (Shi Qingxuan x He Xuan, Pei Ming x Yushi Huang etc) and Shi Qingxuan ends up being my real favorite.
I always love ‘kind characters who actively choose to be kind all the time’ so I was expecting to love Xie Lian but for some reason, Xie Lian isn’t like that to me. I like him when I read this series but I think I’ll be able to move on pretty easily. Instead it was Shi Qingxuan (also a kind character actively choosing to be kind) who became my favorite. It was Shi Qingxuan that made me search more fanfics and it was Shi Qingxuan that made me read posts in Twitter and Tumblr. I would even go far as to said that Black Water Arc is the best and most well written arc in this series. I was also pretty obsessed with beefleaf for a while.
I like this series and I do think MXTX is a good writer. At the same time, I think MXTX writing style is much more suited to visual media, for example an animation/donghua. It’s the reason I think the donghua adaptation is better than the novel. Overall, despite somethings didn’t meet my expectations, I still enjoyed this series.
Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
3.5
Now THIS is a monster romance. Every authors who want to write a monster romance should take notes.
I enjoyed it more toward the end, as the plot got faster pace and more actions. The epilogue is cute. Honestly, I like it and don’t have much problem with it
I enjoyed it more toward the end, as the plot got faster pace and more actions. The epilogue is cute. Honestly, I like it and don’t have much problem with it
If I Have to Be Haunted by Miranda Sun
2.5
I can see this being a YA Netflix show but as a novel, it wasn’t what I expected at all.
I was expecting a standalone YA supernatural romance with a serious and probably sad vibes. It ended up being more fantasy and lighthearted than I thought. It was also surprisingly a… series? That’s probably the most surprising. As a whole, the story feels almost like a Disney YA show.
It’s disappointing tbh but I guess I was expecting too much. The romance is cute though.
I was expecting a standalone YA supernatural romance with a serious and probably sad vibes. It ended up being more fantasy and lighthearted than I thought. It was also surprisingly a… series? That’s probably the most surprising. As a whole, the story feels almost like a Disney YA show.
It’s disappointing tbh but I guess I was expecting too much. The romance is cute though.
Rule of the Aurora King by Nisha J. Tuli
Did not finish book. Stopped at 34%.
Did not finish book. Stopped at 34%.
No matter how diverse, a trashy romance is a trashy romance
A Tempest of Tea by Hafsah Faizal
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
1.5
Heist should be fast paced. It should be mostly actions, I don’t need fighting scenes, but heist book should be THRILLING. It should be 20% preparation and 80% HEIST!!! The characters should be well developed and distinct! They all should be a strong enough character on their own! 58% in and nothing exciting have happened, wtf is going on??!!
I DNF Hafsah Faizal first series the moment Zafira’s friend got killed and she literally didn’t reacted. Like, at most there was a paragraph talking about it and then she moved on to be ‘lovey dovey’ with the killer. That pretty much speaks how I feel for Faizal’s characters. She keeps telling us that these characters are close like family, and this one is atrracted to that one… yet nothing to show their relationships.
Anyway, DNF at 58%. If I decided to check out Faizal’s next book in the future, I hope there are improvements because I truly wish to support her
I DNF Hafsah Faizal first series the moment Zafira’s friend got killed and she literally didn’t reacted. Like, at most there was a paragraph talking about it and then she moved on to be ‘lovey dovey’ with the killer. That pretty much speaks how I feel for Faizal’s characters. She keeps telling us that these characters are close like family, and this one is atrracted to that one… yet nothing to show their relationships.
Anyway, DNF at 58%. If I decided to check out Faizal’s next book in the future, I hope there are improvements because I truly wish to support her
The Burning Sky by Sherry Thomas
2.5
Technically, this should get lower rating. The worldbuilding and the magic system are a mess, BUT the romance is great. I like the main characters and as expected of Sherry Thomas, she ate with the romance scenes.
Personally I have always been a characters > worldbuilding truther. I can ignore terrible magic system or worldbuilding full of holes as long as I love the characters. In this case, I love the romance so I’ll be reading the rest of the series
Personally I have always been a characters > worldbuilding truther. I can ignore terrible magic system or worldbuilding full of holes as long as I love the characters. In this case, I love the romance so I’ll be reading the rest of the series
Heaven Official's Blessing: Tian Guan Ci Fu (Novel) Vol. 7 by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu
I don’t think there are a lot of memorable moments here compare to the previous volumes. I know the reveal for the big villain happened but like… I already suspected Jun Wu from the start.
Shi Qingxuan appearing again is probably the best part in this volume. I love him and miss him so much. I wish we got to see more of him and He Xuan, I want to see if that’s truly how their relationship ends or if there’s more.
Overall, I still like it but it’s probably one of the weaker volume.
3.0
Shi Qingxuan appearing again is probably the best part in this volume. I love him and miss him so much. I wish we got to see more of him and He Xuan, I want to see if that’s truly how their relationship ends or if there’s more.
Overall, I still like it but it’s probably one of the weaker volume.
I Hope This Doesn't Find You by Ann Liang
3.5
I kinda need Ann Liang’s books as a movie adaptation. Like, I have read 2 of her books and I can imagined them clearly as a show or a movie.