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incredibleeeeeeeee

sorry but am i reading this correctly???? we are now saying "the large imperial ambitions of the powerful are equally justified for their survival as a smaller culture who fears being wiped out by demands of assimilation"???? is this what we are doing here Sue Lynn Tan??????? HEY WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON WITH THESE ASIAN FANTASIES

Extremely nonsensical. There's no emotional continuity with this woman, and she continues to be soooooooooooooooo flat you could use her as a leveler.

"how dare you accuse me of being inappropriate" /invites a man into her bedroom not 2 pages later

girl, what???????????? exfuckingcuse me?

Its trope galore in this bitch, and I'm hating every single moment. So much is going on and yet nothing substantive has actually happened. Except for the tropes!!!!!!!

her grandfather LITERALLY brought a god's wrath down upon them because he could not let go of his granddaughter, after he was asked many times by the people who he was ruling to choose another heir because she could not fulfill her obligations and she is saying that THE MINISTERS would "doom[ed] [the people] under such tyranny"? ARE WE BEING SERIOUS??? ARE WE BEING SOOO SERIOUS

nothing is earned!!!!! nothing. im begging for some genuine actual build up and i don't think i'll get it

She continues to be extremely vapid and I'm not convinced Sue Lynn Tan did any research into Chinese mythology or xuanhuan storytelling at all.

I figured out that my problem is that I am expecting adult decisions and feelings from an adult fantasy book, but this is clearly a baby book for babies.

I am so tired of the cheap feminism in romantasy. Grow up!

The thinly disguised Puritanism in this book is sending me. Ofc the mc has never had a woman cause then he wouldn’t be uwu a good boy.

Why does everything have to be a quip? Can we not have a conversation without a quip? Begging, pleading, on my knees.

"We'll never be as strong as [the immortals]."
"Then we'll just have to be smarter."

Mission failed catastrophically and it hasn't even started.

Liyen is giving major nepo baby vibes. No one wants her to be ruler except her grandpa but somehow everyone else in the kingdom is the villain cause they don't want someone useless on the throne. Please, dear god, stop writing court politics if you don't want to write about politics.

She is a HORRIBLE person. She can't even offer comfort to a life-long friend who got tortured ON HER BEHALF without looking for the man she met TWO DAYS AGO. What is going onnnnnnnnnn

Hana really really fucking sucks as a person WOW.

i usually never post mid-read reviews but why does this woman take every scene as an opportunity to monologue, and then there's zero actual science involved????????????? this shit blows. it sucks. it blows and sucks and not even in a fun sexy way.

This was...not was advertised.

I'm finding this unbearably slow. At 30% we are still in backstory territory--and for what? What is the payoff here? What is the actual point? I am a third of the way into this book and only one day has passed on page.

Anyone else rolling their eyes at the very lukewarm takes on teenage protagonists here as “wooden” and vapid or just me.

Everyone in this book as an asshole to Emmett and I genuinely mean everyone.

I'm still in "god damn kids are insufferable" hell here. Never reading a book featuring a child ever again

This book is making me hate kids even more than I generally do.

I'm hate reading this at this point.