Diabolical Duckling’s Reviews > The Poet Empress > Status Update

I genuinely don’t know what this book is going towards arghhh

Holy shit this is horrible

I need people to stop using OKAY in historical books it’s so fucking jarring

Okay now things could get interesting….

So far I’m finding this book really basic and tedious? It’s so tell not show, feels like a first draft and the magic is kinda cool but I’m not seeing enough of it

Am I hallucinating or does this book have high highs and low lowwwwwwws

I really hope she becomes friends with some of the women why have alluded to gay shit if there is none fr fr

If Ruyu turns out to be emperor Puyi ill eat my hat

I am sticking with this book but I’m begging hyped up Chinese authors to throw a few bones to those of use who actually know about East Asian history and not make their stories predictable asf by reskinning actual historical figures like Cixi

This is very daughter of the moon goddess and I’m vibing with it