This was not my jam, bread, or butter. In all honesty, a 2.5 rating may even be a bit higher than I think it deserves. Two things about this

This book is on my list of 'top 21 books I need to read in 2021', so I was equal parts happy and terrified that this was selected as the Jul

This is a story that is steeped in ancient Chinese history and culture with a dash of fantasy.

While I wouldn't say my experience with this book was bad, I felt mostly underwhelmed. Maybe it is because of the length of th

This book pulled me in so many directions and I don't really know how to feel about it.

I feel like I didn't read the same book as most people because I didn't really enjoy this.

I am overall on the fence about how I feel about this book. On one hand, I didn't think this was a bad book, but on the other hand, I though

Overall, while this didn't knock it out of the park for me in terms of character and story development, I thought that this was an okay book