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As a fantasy and Chinese history nerd, this book should have been tailor-made for me, but I almost raqe-quit at 150 pages. I kept reading primarily because having an unfinished book on my Kobo annoys me, and it ended up being entertaining enough to carry me to the end. It reads like my Chinese history textbooks but with occasional dialogue and some mega-narwhals. Lots of summary, very few women, not a lot of time getting to know the vast array of characters. The only characters I felt any emotio
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Interesting but not entirely successful book. The story mostly takes a broad panoramic view that reads more like the recounting of an ancient legend than a modern character study. But the downside of that approach is that the characters themselves become sketchy and vague (I had a very hard time keeping track of or caring about most of them), and the plot feels like something that is destined to happen rather than an organic development; it’s reading a history rather than a suspenseful story. I
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