The Last Embers of the High Tang

A good book is like a pearl hidden in the sea of ​​books.

The Western Regions have rubber grass, from which rubber can be extracted to make tires.

It's indeed a good book; I stumbled upon it this month. The poor reception, in my opinion, mainly stems from the opening, where the transitions between several scenes within the same timeframe are not smooth enough, affecting the reading experience.

This book is written with a lot of culture, but it's too pretentious and overly crafted, which actually makes the story less engaging. In my opinion, a novel, no matter what it is, must at least tell a good story to be acceptable to the reader. What's the use of excellent writing or clever pacing if the story can't be accepted?

Without a clear main storyline and no exciting moments, it was destined to flop.

I read this book on QQ Reading, and I've got about 40 chapters left. The author clearly put a lot of effort into researching, and the writing is decent, but there are a lot of flaws. Leaving aside the plot, I'll just point out the historical inaccuracies: First, the "zai" in "Tianbao eleventh year" refers to the change of era name to "zai" starting from the third year of Tianbao.

I read dozens of chapters and still didn't understand it. The names of the enemy characters are damn hard to pronounce. Besides, how many readers actually understand this history? If you write it so difficult to understand and read, who will read it... So it's destined to flop.

I'd rather read the history of the Tang Dynasty than read your book.

Why keep going on and on about court or palace affairs (which aren't really relevant to the protagonist yet)? While these things are necessary, there's no need to dedicate ten or twenty chapters to them! Three or four chapters at most is enough; any more and it gets tedious.

A waste of time, trashy book with too many bad points.