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The Red Palace by June Hur
3.75

  • Character development, description, motivations = all wonderfully drawn.
  • Historical setting = fascinating, with insight into a range of classes and roles.
  • Relationship = very slow-burn romance, which felt appropriate for the characters and story.  No instalove round here!
  • Murder mystery = based to a degree on real events, which was a problem for me in that Spoiler:
    we end up proving that a guy did some murders but not others, with no reasons given.
    .  Quite true to life in that respect, but not quite what I was in the mood to read.

Overall recommendation: I personally enjoyed Silence of Bones more; both have a focused, smart female MC, but if you also want a gentle romance, and minimal religious aspects, this might be the more obvious choice.