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lowliet · 5 months ago

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reading to gaze upon wicked gods was such a harrowing experience, but it was nothing compared to reading the REVIEWS of to gaze upon wicked gods

the people who hate this book bc they think the author is writing a romance novel between an asian girl and her colonizer are stupid as rocks. but they're not as stupid as the people who thought this book was a romance between an asian girl and her colonizer AND STILL WANTED THEM TO END UP TOGETHER

#i have many thoughts the first of which being this was an okay novel. like really middle of the road for me 3/5 stars #but dear lord people acted like author was out here committing the war crimes herself the way they spoke about this book #it's not a “colonizer romance” SHES AN UNRELIABLE NARRATOR WHO IS BEING MANIPULATED BY A MAN IN A POSITION OF POWER OVER HER #this guy has literally skeletons in the closet bodies in the basement and you think the author is uncritically supporting his actions???#are you crazy?#also people clowned on her for “writing unit 731 fanfiction” which i think is a terrible description of what the book is.#she does not romanticize the conditions those people were forced into by any means.#and i don't care that she made the bad guys romans instead of japanese people #shes literally fucking chinese i don't care about how YOU think she should fictionalize the brutality done to her people #like was it the strongest writing choice? no.#but writing a bland oversimplified metaphor for colonization is not a crime #the plot of this book was fine the thing i didn't like was the fuck ass setting #like why was fantasy china another planet called pangu but the roman empire was just literally the roman empire #and they were seperate planets connected through a space portal??? girl what? why tf would that be the setting.#it should have been one fantasy earth set during the late 1800's. instead of all that fuckery.#and they should have just fucking called it opium #whatever. never speak to me about this book again. i will be reading the sequel.#rambles

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