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rebeccazh 's review for:
Breaking Through the Clouds 破云
by Huai Shang
i finally finished this.... jesus...
this is a detective bl story and it's very well-loved in mainland china. i really enjoyed it at first but i had a lot of problems with this.
what i liked: this is set in modern times and i actually picked up a lot of chinese internet slang reading this, lol. mutual physical intimacy (a bit less dubcon than usual lol), desire, realistic ages (everyone's 30+) that correspond to their job ranks, the humor and the characterization (I thought Yanxie was going to annoy me but he was quite cute).
what i disliked: instalove (or more like instalust), the imposition of heterosexual dynamics onto an m/m couple so much so that i wonder if this author is fetishizing mlm, casually ignorant jokes and comments, the intense angst and almost excessively emotional scenes...
this is a detective bl story and it's very well-loved in mainland china. i really enjoyed it at first but i had a lot of problems with this.
what i liked: this is set in modern times and i actually picked up a lot of chinese internet slang reading this, lol. mutual physical intimacy (a bit less dubcon than usual lol), desire, realistic ages (everyone's 30+) that correspond to their job ranks, the humor and the characterization (I thought Yanxie was going to annoy me but he was quite cute).
what i disliked: instalove (or more like instalust), the imposition of heterosexual dynamics onto an m/m couple so much so that i wonder if this author is fetishizing mlm, casually ignorant jokes and comments, the intense angst and almost excessively emotional scenes...