First of all, thank you to Sinoist Books who offered me a copy in return for an honest review.

Before I started writing this review, I looked to see when I had started reading the book and that's when I noticed it took me about a month to finish it.

After reading the blurp I was genuinely interested in reading the book. I've read a lot of stories about China, but I've got to say that this one was very different.

The book has 3 parts, each of them are about one of the main characters; Baorun, Miss Bai, Liu Sheng and decribe various events that happen in their lives. Which, are connected due to events in the past.

For a long time I was waiting for things to start happening as the story was evolving quite slowly, in my opinion. After learning the main reason why the 3 are connected (Miss Bai / Fairy Princess was raped) everything seems to continue on like nothing happened. We don't learn why the perpetrator commited his crime and how he feels about the situation. Not even later in the book.

The story continued to meander slowly, with few rapids on the way. Towards the end, when we are learning more about Miss Bai things are starting to happen, which got my attention a bit more.