428 pages
Chinese language
Published Aug. 6, 2003 by Shantou da xue chu ban she.
Ben shu miao xie le wang shi si sheng zi fei zi, yin qi xue ye zhong you mo fa de " jing ji ", bei guo wang mi mi pai ren xun lian ta ci ke de ji yi. chang da hou, hen kuai jiu jiang mian dui ta di yi xiang wei xian er ling ren xin shen ju lie de ren wu.
it was a painfully slow start of the story and some of the plot lines didn't pay off. but in the end a surprisingly interesting world and captivating book.
{Reread Jun 2022}
This is just a really solid book. reread it as an audiobook because I needed a refresher going into the next book in the series and I just really enjoyed it. It's so comforting despite the more emotionally challenging scenes, and I can relate to Fitz so much and his journey of growing up trying to figure out who he is. A lot of the worldbuilding still goes over my head, but I at least can appreciate how unique it is.
{original review December 2020}
I liked it I think?
It's such an odd book because there's no main plot-line aside from watching the main character grow up, but I thoroughly enjoyed getting to know the main character and to slowly discover the setting. It was a tad slow-moving at times and I didn't find it to be a page turner so I couldn't give it 5, …
{Reread Jun 2022}
This is just a really solid book. reread it as an audiobook because I needed a refresher going into the next book in the series and I just really enjoyed it. It's so comforting despite the more emotionally challenging scenes, and I can relate to Fitz so much and his journey of growing up trying to figure out who he is. A lot of the worldbuilding still goes over my head, but I at least can appreciate how unique it is.
{original review December 2020}
I liked it I think?
It's such an odd book because there's no main plot-line aside from watching the main character grow up, but I thoroughly enjoyed getting to know the main character and to slowly discover the setting. It was a tad slow-moving at times and I didn't find it to be a page turner so I couldn't give it 5, but it makes me really hopeful for the rest of the series once it starts to pick up a bit.
