![]() ![]() 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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