
Steel and Sunflower
钢与葵
- Status
- Ongoing
- Length
- 1.4M Words
- Genre
- Eastern Fantasy
- Subgenre
- European Fantasy
- Updated
- 2d ago
- Source
- Fanqie
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This book is a multi-line narrative, which is a great test of the author's skills. You need to read it carefully to discover a grand world view comparable to Game of Thrones. This kind of novel similar to the Western Fantasy Group Portrait is really well written by the author, especially the diction in the full text is very careful. It is not too gorgeous but very delicate. It can be seen that the author is very careful. I hope the author can complete it. I don't ask for daily updates, but I don't ask for giving up due to the influence of traffic. It is still serialized. It is normal that the number of people who can read it is limited. Most readers prefer completed articles that can be read at once, so work hard, you will definitely be popular.
The suspense + growth line makes me unable to quit! The character goes from weak to broken to struggling. There is no upgrading in the story, but he is crushed by reality and gets up again. Goosebumps fall all over the place when the foreshadowing is recycled. It turns out that growth really needs to be sacrificed!
Who in the family understands? I thought fantasy was all about Long Aotian, but this book directly threw me into the Shura field without light! The multiple protagonists are struggling on their own, steampunk mixed with Cthulhu, and the foreshadowing of the war 25 years ago made me scratch my head. It was slow in the early stage but has such great stamina that I stayed up all night to chase it!
This book has many characters, novel stories, rich imagination, and compact plot. It is a book that you will not be able to put down after reading it! The author has strong language expression skills and detailed plot description. Worth recommending. Looking forward to update The first few chapters of this book are a little thin, but the more you go on, the more information there is and the more exciting it becomes! After seeing the latest 39 chapters, I am really amazed!
I came across a book by chance. I was attracted by the title and read it for a long time. It is a different time-travel and rebirth system book than the old routine. This book describes many battlefields and strategies, human nature and morality, which is refreshing. Recommended to friends who are tired of reading traditional online articles.
Generally, books like this that cover many perspectives make me impatient, because most of the books I see in this type of book usually only write well from one perspective, and the other perspectives are not very well written. But this novel is different. It allows me to read each person's story very seriously. Each person's story line is very complete, whether it is Iben's growth, Ava's transformation, Ye Lanqing's memories, Victor's investigation, etc. Their stories make me immersed in it. At least I read it carefully. I will look forward to their growth, the meeting of different protagonists, and how Ye Zhaoheng's revolution will unfold. This makes me keep reading. No matter when I open this novel, I have the motivation to keep reading. Although I have not read many novels, and few of them can be called excellent, at least based on my shallow experience and reading experience, I think this is a novel worth reading.
The multiplayer main narrative and many graphic descriptions and connections reminded me of Game of Thrones. It was like really watching a fantasy drama. The corresponding storyboards and storyboard animations appeared in my mind at every paragraph. Come on, author!
A battle for survival is a hundred times more brutal than a palace fight! There is no good or evil, only positions. Every choice is to step on someone or be stepped on. The multiple protagonists use each other and care about each other. The relationship makes goosebumps all over the body!
The concept is clever and the writing is very good. The main characters are all very three-dimensional. It is a good novel and I like it very much. I have read 60 chapters and came here to review it. It is really a rare treasure on the market. The author clearly rejects the fast pace of commercial novels, rejects the low threshold and the drive of emotional pleasure, and attempts to pursue a narrative style that is melancholy, dense, full of symbolism and speculation, and the depth, complexity and literary quality are all breathtaking. Especially the chapters around 3-4 by Ye Lanqing are presented in a majestic, sharp, and highly literary way. The whole story is about how people become human, not about the chaos of gods and demons. Extremely ambitious and thoughtful. Of course, it is indeed quite provocative. In the current sinking market, it is worth looking forward to whether this kind of works can stand out.
The writing is too big, the threads are too complicated, and there is no distinction between priorities, but it is still a masterpiece. After all, there are too few authors who can write epic poems.