shadowbooker's Reviews (780)

This book is truly full of vices, with an extremely hedonist character and a smut writer that puts all he writes to practice. I loved this book to pieces, the characters are flawed but lovable and you can see an organic personal growth as their relationship develops. I was rooting for them from the beginning and all their highs made me giddy and their lows made me cry like an idiot.

This is the perfect book for fans of queer and historical romance, grumpy/sunshine and found family tropes, and some rough but not overly explicit smut, which is perhaps my only complaint: I wished the author felt more comfortable to lean completely into the smut and some important scenes didn’t happen behind closed doors, but regardless this book was perfection and I can see myself recommending it to everyone.

I loved this book!!! It was quite unique and I loved the way it incorporated Chinese mythology into it. The enemies to lovers was so deliciously built and their romance arc felt pretty organic. It was slightly predictable for me and the main character a bit naive, but I really loved how strong and resilient she was, and the MMC made up with how smart he was. I am super intrigued for book 2 and I honestly cannot wait to read it.

Damn you Ana Huang!!! You are about to make an audiobook lover read an ebook just so she can get to the second book, because honestly? I CANNOT WAIT FOR THE NEXT BOOK!!!

This story was so good. It wasn’t as spicy as other Ana Huang books I’ve read but it was still sexy and the story was awesome. I loved that it was set in China and the characters were all so fun. I really got into the love story and I may have shed a few tears… AND THE CLIFFHANGER!? I need the next book now!

I’m going to DNF… I’ve read this far and I’m still so bored and uninterested… I really wanted to love it but alas…