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Heaven Official's Blessing, No Paths Are Bound
Monday, 21 December 2020 19:25Someone: Got any good reading recs?
Me, appearing out of nowhere: Have you heard the good news of His Highness the Crown Prince of Xianle?
AKA the donghua made me impatient, so I read the Tian Guan Ci Fu novel in a week, and enjoyed it immensely. My only nitpicky criticism is that literally every chapter ends with a cliffhanger, which I suspect is an artifact of the fact that it was published serialized, but made finding good stopping points hard (and this is absolutely not a 'read in one sitting' novel purely in terms of length. Stuff I liked (spoiler-free):
- Loyalty kink cranked to 11. Or possibly higher than 11.
- Superpowered people + domestic fluff (someday someone will give me the Summers family trying to be a normal family. SOMEDAY)
-Very few hatesink villains (one of my few frustrations with MDZS - too many villains who have no personality beyond 'being as awful as possible')
- Actually pretty good communication between people when it counts?
- As befitting a tale of immortals, everything is Epic As Fuck
- Gender shenanigans! Both crossdressing and physical shape changing, because gods.
- I love Xie Lian and Hua Cheng both so much. And kind of want to be Hua Cheng a little (but like, without the horrific traumatic backstory). What a suave motherfucker.
Me, appearing out of nowhere: Have you heard the good news of His Highness the Crown Prince of Xianle?
AKA the donghua made me impatient, so I read the Tian Guan Ci Fu novel in a week, and enjoyed it immensely. My only nitpicky criticism is that literally every chapter ends with a cliffhanger, which I suspect is an artifact of the fact that it was published serialized, but made finding good stopping points hard (and this is absolutely not a 'read in one sitting' novel purely in terms of length. Stuff I liked (spoiler-free):
- Loyalty kink cranked to 11. Or possibly higher than 11.
- Superpowered people + domestic fluff (someday someone will give me the Summers family trying to be a normal family. SOMEDAY)
-Very few hatesink villains (one of my few frustrations with MDZS - too many villains who have no personality beyond 'being as awful as possible')
- Actually pretty good communication between people when it counts?
- As befitting a tale of immortals, everything is Epic As Fuck
- Gender shenanigans! Both crossdressing and physical shape changing, because gods.
- I love Xie Lian and Hua Cheng both so much. And kind of want to be Hua Cheng a little (but like, without the horrific traumatic backstory). What a suave motherfucker.
