Author: Mo Yuan
Hehe, my learning and talent are shallow, so I wouldn't dare call this a book review. I read Dust Along the Immortal Road last night and just wanted to say a few words, as a reader, about a book I loved.
I'd been reading web novels for several years, but since the first half of this year, I hadn't really been reading anything closely. There was no particular reason-I simply felt there weren't any books that suited my taste. Hehe, that's not to say other people weren't writing well ~_~. But yesterday, I heard Xiao Ming mention this book, so I opened it for a look. To my surprise, I read straight through until midnight before finishing. Today, I happened to run into Brother Ping Chao, and I couldn't help wanting to ramble a little. Please don't mind me, please don't mind me ~_~.
I won't say anything about the prose. Hehe, when the writing is this good, there's no need to go on about it.
The story didn't begin with the heart-stopping thrills of so many web novels these days. Instead, it had the quiet simplicity and authenticity of an ordinary household, and it was precisely that simplicity and authenticity that drew me onward.
As I read on and watched an innocent, ignorant boy gradually grow up, the author kept that authenticity running through the protagonist, Zhang Xingyan. That was exactly what the protagonists of so many fantasy novels today lacked.
Then there was all that mystical lore. I imagine the author put considerable thought and effort into finding those materials, but they were used in just the right places, without anything feeling forced. More importantly, the author wrote genuine Chinese fantasy, rather than fantasy that borrowed a bit from the East, grafted on a bit