Read-in-Progress Wednesday

[geraineon]

This is your weekly read-in-progress post!

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[aurumcalendula]

I caught up on Begging the Heavens in Vain, To Embers We Return, and Dragon Subjugation Incantation! I'm especially enjoying the latter two! Begging the Heavens in Vain is fine, but I wish the romance plot got a bit more focus.

[larryhammer]

Over the weekend, I read a few short baihe stories of various genres:

• Warmhearted You by Tao Jiu De Jiaohuazi: Contemporary - a fluffy and spicy romance, just what I wanted.


• General’s Manor Young Concubine Survival Report by Feng De Lingdang: Historical - silly and ridonkulous and lol funny, with the transmigrator MC trying to apply modern story/drama tropes to her situation and flailing her genre IDs with every story development.


• Chen Ruobing and I by Zui Ye Zhen: Contemporary high school - More somber and heavier than I wanted just now, but good enough I still finished.

After which I am back to The Dragon (见龙, lit. “meeting the dragon”) by Taiyang Jun, which gets decidedly better once we formally meet the dragon. The xianxia aspects of the story are, um, not the best baked, but the characterization (and character arcs) make up for this. Am currently a bit less than halfway through (of a story that’s ⅗ of Journey to the West).

[duckprintspress]

I finished The Beauty's Blade yesterday! it was... what it was. I did think the last 100 pages or so were more enjoyable than the rest, though the pacing was still kinda dismal. The ending just kinda falls off a cliff in terms of, like, actually showing what happens.

I did rather like the basic premise of Highlight for spoilers!*all the men in the jianghu get to be so ~righteous~ even when they do the most heinous shit, so all the women they've wronged band together to get revenge and ruin their sects.* While I'm iffy on the execution, the concept has a lot of appeal.