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Female General and Eldest Princess [女将军和长公主]

女将军和长公主

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damn i really took my time with this one! which is okay, i think, because even without rushing, there are still a lot that i did not understand. what i read was a translation work, and me not being entirely familiar with chinese culture much less Ancient chinese culture, there must be a lot of context that i missed. really appreciate the translators' hard work for making this available for non-chinese speakers to read!! 

how i judge books is how memorable it is to me! not just the plot, but the experience of reading the book itself. and sadly, i knew fgep is gonna be one of those unmemorable books to me. thing is, i cry and get touched easily, so even though i cried TONS while reading this, it's not anything significant. i enjoyed it mostly because of how attached i am to lin wanyue.

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i am a sucker for loves that surpass the mortal world, lin wanyue & li xian fortunately had that! so that's a +1 for me. their relationship was.. Stormy, to say the least, and their ending was much well deserved after the exhaustion they've been through. 

somehow im more interested in shiyi & yu xian... because the concept of secret imperial spies/assassins dating each other and being the princess' gay awakening... that is so big brained of them. speaking about gay awakening, li xian's experience with her own lesbianism resonated with me. that's when i started to become even more invested in li xian's character. her constant but growing protectiveness for lin wanyue was also admirable. 

most of the story was predictable, and im not the impatient kind to hurriedly want explanation handed to me, so when most things were presented to me, i just nod and read along. but! what shocked me the most is qi wang and chu wang! i did not see that coming from any angle, that genuinely surprised me, and im not sure if it's the pleasant kind. 
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anyway! this could've been 3/3.5 stars if it weren't for the last extra. an enjoyable read with strong political intrigue & military strategy, lovable main character and interesting love interest. both are complex and as human as they can be.

女将军和长公主 | Female General and Eldest Princess

pdl, writing this book: im gonna make every side character gay and pine for sum1 who doesn't like them back 

2.75

I liked it overall, though the change of pace on the second part of the novel didn't conviced me, it felt like everything was really rushed and it didn't felt quite right.

I liked the most the political aspect of the novel is really amazing

Female General and Eldest Princess [女将军和长公主]

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