Youngseo Lee’s Reviews > The Emperor of Gladness > Status Update

imagine you read three really corny things happen in a row followed immediately by the most beautiful paragraph youve seen in years and this just keeps happening on repeat

i dont know.. im kinda deeply invested (i started getting into it around page 70) but i dont like the dialogue. i don't know if i dislike the exposition, or if the descriptions are so good that the exposition pales in comparison. i get the sense that vuong was having a hard time getting the voice of the narrator. but also im like really into the book