For whatever reason I havent got round to doing one of these for ages. Luckily I also lost a lot of my reading mojo a year or two ago, so its not as if I have hundreds of mini-reviews to catch up on. Still, this could be a long post, so strap into your listening-to-my-opinions-on-books-I-only-sort-of-half-remember-at-this-point seat and get comfy!

Based not in our world but one seemingly very similar, Senlin Ascends quickly veers into a sub-world which...