Thursday, 21 July 2016

Ban Lu Qin Jun

Short and sweet. Happy ending. I was expecting a tragedy and a love faded - leading to infidelity. This is very well written, clever plot.

This guy meets a girl pretending to be a boy at a school and falls in love. Under mysterious circumstances, she leaves him and he vows to never marry anyone but her. Four years later, after a flood of imposters, he receives her hair pin and finds her and her sister and their strange sick cousin. But the passion he had once felt for her seems to have cooled down with time and he begins to doubt her identity.

SPOILERS - Nope, this is slash and surprise!genderbending. The girl is a guy who lies saying he is a girl. What a twist on the Sungkyunkwan Scandal classic. WIN.




Saturday, 9 July 2016

Rainbow Rowell Carry On

Odd mix of Harry Potter and Percy Jackson.

Imagine if only the last book of HP was ever published and every page had a reference to the previous books that do not exist save in the author's mind.

You could have done more, your idea was clever but this is mostly derivative. I liked the potential here but you did not use it fully. This could have been super excellent as a series.


Baz reminds me of Draco Malfoy. This is reading like fan fiction the more pages I turn. Good, fun time pass.

SPOILER I knew it. I knew it. Slash, boys love, surprise. It felt like a Drarry fan fiction from the very start. The hero was more obsessed over his arch enemy than over his girl or over his female best friend. The ending is different and inspired. 

Saturday, 2 July 2016

Chongfei manual

There is a difference between reincarnation and rebirth.

Reincarnation means you live one life and die and after start a second life in a different body. This can be a body in a different world or the same world but not the original body.

Rebirth means you live one life and die and after you wake again in that same life.  Maybe you are younger at a major turning point. Maybe you remember all your mistakes and swear to never repeat such foolishness again. Of course you have the advantage of foresight. Time travel for the soul.

This girl had a tough life and a nasty death. She wakes up again as her past self still a sweet kid in body but an ancient survivor in spirit. No one has any idea.

Never again will she lose her family and position and die alone and forgotten, a slow torturous ending. Her first step is to ensure that her stepmother's mask of goodness is shredded to strips, irreparable and unable to hide her darkly ugly heart.

In the past life the woman had tried to sell her off to slave traders and then strangled her in fury. Such a woman did not deserve the title of mother that an innocent naive six year old had called in despair.

Children do not understand the hearts of adults. This life time she will not allow her to succeed or to be parted from her father and twin brother.

She bites the wrist of Prince until her teeth leave a permanent scar. Still a child this prince who will be a great king takes offense and sends his bodyguard to bring her back. His bodyguard interrupts the kidnapping and returns her home. Plot successful.

Dear little girl with an old soul. You never crossed paths with the King before, so you have no idea what you just did. You caught his attention. Oops.

In the past life she had died really young so even her foresight is limited. I find myself voting for her to win and survive because her character is really well drawn. Read this.





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