Shuoming

Your previous book isn't even finished yet, and you're already starting a new one? I've been saving your previous book for five months just so you could come back and continue writing, and you idiot, you pull this trick of starting a new book instead?

I've read many of this author's Ming Dynasty novels before; they're very well written, but I haven't supported them before. Now I'll give them my support.

Lao Bai, you've started a new book again... Actually, I was hoping you'd continue updating "Zhu Ming," I especially love that book. 😆

This time you've really made a fool of yourself. I think you shouldn't write web novels anymore; you've completely worn down the readers' patience.

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The beginning was alright, but it fell apart when his father died. The death felt forced and illogical, completely disregarding any sense of realism. A village headman, a fully armed enemy who would have skinned you alive, trusted you simply because you killed a group of bandits.

I've read several of the author's novels; the beginnings are captivating, the middle sections become bland, and the later parts are utterly tasteless. They always start strong but end weakly, getting progressively worse. How can this style last?

I don't really understand. A character who was developed over thirty chapters, and then all of them were sacrificed? And that Mongolian girl's storyline is gone too—what's the point of writing it? They might as well have just started with "Qidian Orphanage, Parents Sacrificed to Heaven."

One of my favorite historical fiction authors. I've read "Shunming" ten times, "The Embroidered Uniform Guard" twenty times, and "The Great Ming Warrior" thirty times. A collection of novels I never tire of reading.

I'm starting to feel like this wasn't written by the author herself. Did she hire someone to ghostwrite it? And not a very good one at that!