Reviews tagging 'Death'

天官赐福 [Tiān Guān Cì Fú] by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

56 reviews

aelin_morgenstern's review against another edition

adventurous emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Death, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Infidelity and Sexual content

rendezvousrei's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Torture, Violence, and War

Moderate: Self harm, Suicide, Grief, Suicide attempt, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child abuse, Death of parent, and Alcohol

zhanghao's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

tears flowing down my face... hualian my beloved i would fawking die for you. 

this is probably the longest book i've read, not sure if it's longer or equivalent to jwqs, but man. MAN. i did not want this to end. you know how once the main couple get together, your inner bitter singleness  inadvertently comes out and you start losing interest? didn't happen here. hua cheng is the biggest simp on earth and xie lian is just my poor little meow meow. his unluckiness rivals my own. maybe i projected a little, but seeing their love progress and things coming to light one by one (at the best pacing i've read in danmei, i might add) was a complete joy. i spent 4 days doing nothing but reading this book and i don't regret a single second.

i see why people say this is their fav mxtx book

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Death, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Kidnapping, Cannibalism, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Abandonment, War, and Injury/Injury detail

citrus04's review against another edition

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Suicide, Torture, Grief, Death of parent, War, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Misogyny, Self harm, Xenophobia, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Abandonment, and Classism

Minor: Ableism, Homophobia, Infertility, Miscarriage, Sexual content, Cannibalism, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

is shi wudu transphobic? depends on if you think shi qingxuan is trans. also a bit of racism/colorism and transmisogyny from the author herself

rafacolog's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Suicide attempt, Murder, War, and Pandemic/Epidemic

46jjsg's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

Just putting this for record keeping.
- 10/10 Worldbuilding
- 10/10 Main Characters
- 9/10 Side Characters
- 8/10 Pacing... vol 1 was a hurdle but once you get into the world and realize there's a conspiracy that literally ties everything together, you literally can't stop reading the other volumes.

In depth review will be added when I re-read this novel with the 7seas editions. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Gaslighting, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Child abuse, Self harm, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Abandonment, and War

Minor: Abortion

evitak's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Torture, Violence, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Genocide, Mental illness, Cannibalism, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Gaslighting

Minor: Homophobia, Transphobia, and Toxic friendship

witheredflower's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Suicide attempt, Murder, Abandonment, War, and Pandemic/Epidemic

karin_goodreads's review

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Oh my god!!!
So, MXTX might be my favourite author currently and maybe even of all time, because both MDZS and TGCF have taken over my life. I think TGCF is even longer than the Bible (fact?) and I just read through it like my life depended on it. Currently I'm reading the manhua and let me tell you - STARember's style and designs are SO PRETTY!! The story just feels even more grand. I'm just really into this stuff :)

There are many characters in this story too and they have usually just one name and some of them have a special title or a nickname. Like, one thing that I really liked was that Hua Cheng, who was the Supreme Ghost King was called Crimson Rain Sought Flower - if you know the story then you also know the meaning and I really like how it adds to the character. For some reason Qi Rong, who I hated AND loved because of his antics, swearing, dramatics and his unhinged and chaotic behaviour, had such a cute appearance in my head, even though he shouldn't. Like he was called Green Ghost Qi Rong or Night-Touring Green Lantern - that sounds cute to me but he is *definitely* not.

The characters were again written really well and the world building was great too! This time the characters pulled me in even more, because the humor and chaoticness was just so good. The story had the action and adventure we needed, we got our romance that Hua Cheng waited 800 years for (no big deal.. *pfft*) and some ✨spice✨ too. We got literal gods, cultivators, ghosts and all kinds of monsters and beings. Oh, Hua Cheng's scimitar E-Ming even had it's own spirit and Xie Lian's Ruoye too. Both of their "birth" story's are heartbreaking. And also, Hua Cheng's little Wraith Butterflies!!!! They are so pretty and cute BUT incredibly deadly too😍

So basically.. 800 years ago, Xie Lian, who was The Crown Prince of Xianle, ascended and became a god with tens of thousands of worshippers, but soon everything went downhill. He was sent back to the mortal realm, where he quietly suffered for 800 years. Seriously, it was so distressing and painful. The things that happened to him were truly just horrible. Hua Cheng who also suffered, tried to become powerful and unstoppable just because he wanted to protect Xie Lian, who didn't even know that he still had his most devoted worshipper fighting for him. Seriously, Hua Cheng was DEDICATED. I don't know where he got that kind of willpower. Well probably from his intense love and need to protect Xie Lian but still, his dedication was unrivaled.

This novel had a lot of quotes and moments that just spoke volumes. I think one of the quotes that can be understood and felt even without reading the novel is this one (to this day this quote is precious to me): 

The one standing in infinite glory is you; the one fallen from grace is also you. What matters is ‘you’ and not the state of you.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Self harm, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Child abuse and Death of parent

ssyx's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny inspiring mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

my review is not going to do justice to how much these novels mean to me. i finished tgcf over a year ago and it’s still my favorite read ever. i’ve reread all of the books twice, read the manhua, and have watched s1 of the donghua an embarrassing amount of times. tgcf means so much to me i can barely put it to words.

xie lian is my favorite main character ever. period. in anything i’ve watched or read i can say with confidence xie lian is my favorite. he’s smart, funny, competent, and compassionate. he understands the ugliness of the world and how evil and cruel it can be

sigh book 4 sigh

but he still remains true to himself and sticks with what he believes in. he’s definitely a “looks like a cinnamon roll, could kill you” type of character and i love that for him. 

hua cheng is a cool mf. everything about him is cool af. i would say i’m xie lians #1 fan but i couldn’t take hua cheng in a fight. i love him. he literally invented love. he’s one of the coolest characters i’ve ever read about

(which to be fair he had 800 years where he solely practiced not being a loser so he could rizz up xie lian)

he’s smart, he’s funny, it’s powerful af, and he’s be through everything with xie lian and will continue to go through everything with xie lian.

there are so many thematic and character parallels in tgcf and it’s so cool to go through the book and notice all of them

most prominent one to me is hua cheng’s obsession with xie lian compared to jun wu(fuck u jun wu i hope ur suffering)

something about tgcf that is different from other books i’ve read is i actually give a shit about the side characters storylines. i loved reading about the backstories of all of the gods and the ghosts.

beefleaf you will always be iconic and they can have a happy ending ur delusional enough

i’ve written so much and i haven’t even gotten to how good the plot is yet. but i’ll spare the details because to no one’s surprise i loved it as well. it’s 750k words and it still felt too short because i loved it so much. also some also bangers quotes.

edgar allan poe has been real quiet since “what matters is ‘you’ not the state of you” dropped

anyways i love tgcf and i want all of the books tattooed into my brain.

tldr: god is gay and is married to the devil

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Self harm, Suicide, Violence, Grief, and War

Moderate: Body horror, Bullying, Gore, Death of parent, and Abandonment

xie lian has no regards for his safety love him for that but it can be a little scary lol (˃̵ᴗ˂̵)