Heavenly Tyrant by Xiran Jay ZhaoMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
THIS BOOK...Even though it is the second book of the series and it's the "What now?" book before the next book, I still enjoyed it, even though it was painful, gave me emotional damage, and made my voice go up each time I said 'I'm fine!' like Ross from FRIENDS in that one episode. This book made me scream, close to crying, gasping out loud that one time, and my mama asking me if I was alright, and that ending that made me go 'EXCUSE ME?!" almost loud.
Wu Zeitan got her revenge and took down the government, and she awoke a 2,010-year-old Emperor to pilot The Yellow Dragon. Who would've thought that the Emperor who awoke in this world changed everything Wu Zeitan wanted? But then, all those changes came with a price. Some people didn't like the way the world was being ruled by this Emperor who had been asleep for this long and was now listening to Wu Zeitan, who had become the Emperess and was trying to come up with so many ways to get him to change Huxia from the old ways to the new ways. The more Zeitan tries to make changes--making a new group of piolets called The Iron Widows, making a group called the Phoenix Ladies or something like that, and also making sure binding feet is not done anymore to women--everything seems to go to hell.
For example, the new revolutionaries called the White Lotus, led by Zhuge Liang, try to get people back to the old ways, decry the Emperor, and ask him to return to the old ways, calling Zu Weitan a wicked woman. Yizhi--we'll get to him later--betraying our trust over and over again by taking an egg out of Zeitan and combining it with the Emperor's sperm so they can have a surrogate and let them have a child, pretending to be on the Emperor's side but in reality he was doing stuff for the Heavenly Court who warned Zeitan that they would do what they did, to betraying them both in the end and running away to the Heavenly Court, where he was hiding and was actually in a relationship with one of the gods.
The end battle scene was so good. I hung on to every word to see how it would end, and I wasn't expecting that ending to happen, or the fact that the emperor is gonna do what I THINK he's gonna do. I hope he doesn't, because then I would honestly fight him. But the ENDING with that 'Mei-Niang? in Shinmin's real voice?
Ow. Just...OW.
I truly enjoyed this series and I loved this book. Is this my favorite book out of the series? Not really but I still enjoyed it nonetheless.
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