Read-in-Progress Wednesday

[geraineon]

This is your weekly read-in-progress post for you to talk about what you're currently reading and reactions and feelings (if any)!

For spoilers:

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<b>Highlight for spoilers!*</b><span style="background-color: #FFFFFF; color: #FFFFFF">Your spoilers goes here.</span>*

(Sorry for the delay! I scheduled this post knowing I'll be away earlier today but the scheduled post didn't work as expected)

Comments

[dancing_serpent]

I finally picked a book up from my huge TBR pile - The Imperial Uncle. I'm well into the 4th chapter, some 100+ pages in, but I'm not really feeling it. I don't know if I should trust in the narrator, I don't know who is supposed to be endgame, don't know which pairing I should root for.

I thought picking a one volume thing would be the best way to get into reading BL cnovels, but maybe this one was the wrong pick. I'm not giving up on this book yet, but I'm getting so much more emotional payoff out of reading fanfic that I've done that for the past two days.

[liliacs]

I'm sorry you aren't clicking with the novel! I haven't read it myself, but I know people who did and they generally say Imperial Uncle isn't very traditional with its romance, including being unclear about the love interest for a while. In most novels, I'd say the main couple is pretty immediately obvious.

I hope your next cnovel read goes better!

[dancing_serpent]

Well, maybe things will develop into a direction more to my taste. Something finally happened that made me a bit more interested - granted, only after about a hundred pages of mostly boredom. I need at least one character to root for when I'm reading, and right now, the narrator might finally start to fall into that category.

[duckprintspress]

As someone who loved The Imperial Uncle, it's definitely not for everyone, and it also very much NOT representative of danmei as a genre.

[dancing_serpent]

It would help me a lot to know who will be endgame/which pairing I'm supposed to root for.

[liliacs]

The love interest is Highlight for spoilers!*Liu Tongyi.*

[dancing_serpent]

I thought so, but wasn't sure. Glad to have it confirmed, even if it's only no. 2 of the interesting options in my opinion.

[duckprintspress]

If this is a request for a spoiler, the endgame ship is Highlight for spoilers!*Jing Chengjun/Liu Tongyi.*

[dancing_serpent]

That was definitely a request for spoilers! *g* Thank you!

[duckprintspress]

:D

[geraineon]

<3 glad you got your answer, but also echoing the others that it is not representative (though I'd say it's also because it's quite old, 2009, so it's not that it's not representative, but it's quite different from recent danmei).

I enjoy it more because I enjoy the main character and the situation he's in.

[dancing_serpent]

Thing is, I have no idea if I can trust the main character. A first person narrator who keeps saying that nothing is his fault? Super suspicious! *g*