Loved itIt's like a fun adventure filled with emotion and heart and the characters are absolutely fantastic.
The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water (2020)
Others: Leaning positive Zen Cho returns with a found family wuxia fantasy that combines the vibrancy of old school martial arts movies with characters drawn from the margins of history. A bandit walks into a coffeehouse, and it all goes downhill from there. Guet Imm, a young votary of the Order of the Pure Moon, joins up with an eclectic group of thieves (whether they like it or not) in order to protect a sacred object, and finds herself in a far more complicated situation than she could have ever imagined.
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- 9781250269249
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Mixedthis ended up being a really soft fantasy when i went into it thinking that it'd be like a sword flinging whiplash action-packed kind of fantasy it can always throw me off when i go into a book with certain expectations and those expectations aren't met but i vibed with this book i enjoyed it for what it is