Heaven Official's Blessing: Tian Guan Ci Fu (Novel) Vol. 1

The characters are smart and funny and have larger-than-life personalities. The main character, Xie Lian, is great at thinking outside the box and doesn't settle for thinking what other people expect him to think or doing what they expect him to do. The first time I read this novel, he kept surprising me with his creative ideas. He's also thoughtful and humble and makes a point of respecting others' boundaries; he'd be a very likable person to meet in real life. San Lang is also a delightful, charming, funny, and enigmatic character. His growing friendship with Xie Lian is as sweet and hilarious and loud as their characters are. The story is full of action, suspense, mystery, and humor. It's hard to stop reading. The characters' appearances are described in vivid (but highly-readable) detail. Even before looking at the illustrations, you can already see them in your mind's eye. But the illustrations! They're delightful! Sprinkled throughout the text, they bring out the feeling of the moment (sweet, curious, anxious, etc). The expressions of the characters strongly evoke their personalities and moods. The English translation flows naturally in idiomatic English. It's clean, consistent, and polished. (My Chinese isn't good enough to comment on the accuracy overall, but the few simple sentences I compared out of curiosity seemed right on.) The appendices at the end are useful for understanding key terms. One funny thing about them is that the pronunciation guide mentions that Chinese is a tonal language and that tones are key to pronouncing things correctly, but none of the pinyin has tone markings. (I guess it's pretty typical to write pinyin without tone markings in English text.) https://docs.google.com/document/d/19G05-ftJZWOt4-UQ18V9B8wGdjcZryrldiu4ir5xK7s/edit is a helpful pronunciation guide that includes tones and doesn't include any extra spoilery information about the characters. The Kindle edition is good quality. One quirk is that there are two tables of contents in the kindle edition, one kindle-style with links to the chapters, and the other stylized looking like a print version with an illustrated background and fancy font. When I use the kindle feature to "go to" the table of contents, it goes to the stylized one. The table of contents with links is immediately after the cover, so to navigate to it, you can "go to" the cover and then turn the page. The stylized table of contents provides extra context by explaining which webnovel chapters correspond to each book chapter. Many of the webnovel chapters have names like "xyz event 1", "xyz event 2", etc, and as far as I can tell, the book version simply groups together the chapters that have the same name ("xyz event"). I'm very much looking forward to reading the rest of the official translation as it comes out.

Like a lot of people here, I read the entirety of this series in an unofficial translation, and am elated to see that it's getting an English-language release. In short, all I can say is this: read it. It's been a year since I read it and I still can't get it out of my head - I reread my favorite parts of it all the time, and every single reread has me discovering something new. It's quite literally become my favorite book (and I've read a lot of books!) The love story in this book is absolutely stunning. One of the biggest strengths of the book is the slow-burn aspect; when it starts, it gives you a certain impression - I remember thinking, I get it, it's going to be this-and-that kind of love story - but things are slowly revealed that give the relationship incredible depth, making me feel so much for the relationship in a way that I really haven't found in any other novel. This is really the kind of series that's even better on re-reads, because you can see just how much the author thought through her choices before getting to the reveals, and certain scenes become so much more haunting or heart-wrenching! And wow, the reveals - I definitely recommend going in blind, because some of the reveals knocked me off my chair, and none of them just come out of nowhere. Another huge strength of this series is the side characters. I'm usually the kind of person that focuses on main characters and tolerates the rest, but every single side character in this has their place, their backstory, and their motivations, which are just as engaging as those of the leading couple (though they don't take away any thunder from the main two! In fact, they add a lot of parallels.) Some people might feel intimidated by the cultural barrier, since we seldom get translations from Chinese to English, but I don't think this should hold you back. There's nothing complicated, all the mythology of the book is weaved simply throughout the text, and the little pieces that aren't can be easily read in the incredible glossary and character guides that the publisher has included in the back. These guides aren't necessary, however; really, anyone can just jump in and start reading from chapter one. The language of the translation is also perfect and leads the reader right in with no problems; it illustrates things perfectly in English, while still letting the reader feel some of the unique rhythms of the original Chinese language version. This series was actually what inspired me to start learning Mandarin (though readers of this edition certainly shouldn't worry about that!) This book specifically consists of the first two arcs of the series. I was already hooked by the end of this book and I think it's an /excellent/ introduction, and on re-read it reaches the level of fantastic; for those curious, though, the next books are even better - so if all the reviews are confusing because it doesn't seem like much happened in the series yet, just wait! There are seven more books coming, and my personal favorite scenes are yet to come. And I still haven't even talked about the stunning art, which you can see in both the kindle and paperback editions!!! In short - even if this isn't the kind of thing you usually read or you don't usually read novels at all, even if you're unsure about understanding the Chinese elements of the story, even if you aren't sure you understand the point of the premise - I can't recommend this series enough. It's extremely popular for a reason, and you won't regret it!!!!

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L'animé étant magnifique, certains pourraient être rebutés par la version papier. Quelle erreur ! Le roman est une pépite, tout comme MDZ (précédent roman de l'auteure que je recommande également vivement, récemment traduit en français sous le titre Le Grand maître de cultivation démoniaque). Tout comme MDZ, les personnages, les liens entre eux sont complexes et tellement bien travaillés qu'on a l'impression de sentir l'emprunte de leur aura. Je ne suis pas très fan des romances en général mais ici l'histoire d'amour est si bien mêlée à l'histoire épique, tragique du héros qu'on se laisse entrainer avec plaisir. Il faut continuer à lire les prochains tomes, certains passages (pour ne pas dire beaucoup) feront hurler votre petit coeur...

I am not really a reader but I was struck with the great story telling and now I am so obsessed and definitely reading all of them. Book was delivered fast so thank you.

There's honestly no need for me to review the story, it's amazing and you'll be hooked by the prologue. But quality-wise, the book itself is beautiful, mine came with no scratches or tears, and overall I'm very satisfied. I've read other reviews saying their copy came in damaged, but there was no problem with mine, so maybe the issue has been resolved. My only complaint is that I had preordered this item was back in October, and it was still late by one month. This is probably an issue with the distributer, but I would take the shipping date with a grain of salt.

It came without any damages. The book itself is quite good! Nice story. I bought the rest of the series as well!