Sue Lynn Tan

In a Nutshell: Loved the plot. Loved the Fantasy world and everything out-worldly. Liked the characters. Hated the writing style.

Story:

Inspired by the Chinese legend of the moon goddess, this story tells of a young girl Xingyin accustomed to living alone on the moon with her mother Chang’e. What she doesn’t know is that Chang’e has been exiled for stealing the elixir of immortality from the Celestial Emperor. Due to her presence coming to light, Xingyin is forced to escape from the moon and somehow lands up in the Celestial Kingdom, working as a maid for a local wealthy family. When there’s an opportunity to train alongside Crown Prince Liwei, she grabs at it, not knowing that her life will change from that moment. What follows is an interesting story of secrets and scandals, battles with strange and scary monsters, and even forbidden romantic entanglements.
The story comes to us in the first person perspective of Xingyin.

Where the book worked well for me:
… (altro)

Extremely satisfying. Finally resolves the romance! This collection of short stories includes background stories and missing scenes. But most importantly, it provides a sweetly satisfying resolution for the Big Romance Questions that were not (entirely) resolved in the first two books. I mean, yes, at the end of the second book we got a very philosophically sound speech about looking forward to the future whatever it might bring. A+ for good life advice. I kinda liked that the end of the novel was not tied up a neat little bow like Heroine's life / adventures are over now. (Because they're not.) However, it is still very nice to see the big romantic finish. So I was glad that we got that, in this collection. If you liked the first two, read this. If you haven't read the first two, do NOT read this first. You'll ruin the ending for yourself.… (altro)