I had a hard time with the end of this book because, well, I read most of it on Sunday (which was simchat torah) and then turned the news back on on October 8th and, well, you know.
That's not the book's fault. It did make the battle scenes and the question of just fighting rather more difficult than I think the book expected them to be.
Up until that point it was a really fun and well done adaptation of a legend in a way that felt both like it was very clearly paying homage and also doing its own thing. But Huang is just a really enjoyable writer and has a gift for fight scenes (which makes sense) in a way that makes for a cinematic reading experience. I don't picture things, but I could imagine being a person who did while reading this book.