Reviews tagging 'Grief'

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

27 reviews

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

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

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

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

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˂̵)

eauderat's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny inspiring lighthearted fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Self harm, Suicide, Torture, Kidnapping, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, War, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Child abuse, Genocide, Pedophilia, Grief, Alcohol, and Classism

Minor: Body shaming, Bullying, Misogyny, Islamophobia, and Sexual harassment

some_random_person_hi's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective relaxing sad tense fast-paced

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

4.75

  This book is literally everything. The beginning 60-70% reads in the style of a weekly mystery that gets investigated by the main character but starting from the last arc in the third book (by the web novel 3rd out of 5 books way) the previous arcs start to coalesce into a plot really quickly and intensely. 
  I adore the way the themes of fate and love as well as the sheer number of character foils and ship(?) foils this book is so analysable as a lit student I am in love with it. But unlike other books that read like it's written for analysis (cough to kill a mockingbird, babel cough) and thus vaguely boring, this one is so fast paced. I read a couple of paragraphs and something new has already happened -> I finally managed to voluntarily finish a full length chinese book that isn't explicitly written for kids
  Mm I'm never going to forget this book it singlehandedly dragged my chinese grades up, made me stop hating my mother tongue, hard carried my will to live for a semester all because I finally found a fast-paced fantasy book that I could understand.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Cannibalism, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Ableism, Genocide, Misogyny, Racism, Excrement, Kidnapping, Stalking, and Pregnancy

Minor: Animal death and Rape

wickedgrumpy's review against another edition

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

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

I most skimmed the parts I read from the official translations in order to read the fan translation for what hasn't been released yet.

I do think the official translations streamlined and polished everything based on what I did read.

What can I even say about the story?  It's about love and hate.  It's about destiny.  It's about willpower.  It's about life and death.  It's about sacrifice.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Genocide, Gore, Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Cannibalism, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

aeons_v_atlas's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny lighthearted relaxing sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

[This review is for the whole series] 
Has fantastic realistic Dialogue and series of events, though a bit silly at times

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Death of parent

Minor: Child abuse, Death, Terminal illness, Violence, Grief, and War

illiteratenerd's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Genocide, Gore, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Child abuse, Suicide, Cannibalism, Murder, and Abandonment

Minor: Rape and Sexual assault