![]() ![]() ![]() It's everyone else." Mary Sue much? She also has 21st century progressive opinions despite her society having shown no indication of where she would get these norms from. When first she killed, I thought alright, but then she just kept killing needlessly and remorselessly like girl, you need therapy. I found it very hard to like Zetian considering she acts so hostile and demeaning to not only male characters but other women as well. The ultimate alpha male.” vomitĪnd then there's the protagonist, Wu Zetian. “We barely have to do any rebranding for you. There is just so much telling instead of showing, and some of the dialogue is a cringe-inducing. It felt like third-grade fan-fiction level. I get it this is Xiran's first novel, but this prose is bad. I have no idea where all these amazing 5/5 reviews on Goodreads are coming from because I can't see it at all. This book didn't just fail to entice me, it made me cringe hard in some places. So I finally got around to reading it after reading several stellar reviews and. I am subscribed to Xiran's YouTube channel and love their stuff about Chinese history and references in popular works, so when they announced they were writing a novel that's essentially Pacific Rim meets Hunger Games, I was sold. ![]()
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