The Husky and His White Cat Shizun Vol. 1

On the surface, the novel is basically a tale of personal vendetta a sect disciple takes up against his master, whom he deems impossibly haughty and cruel. But in reality, it is a xianxia (Daoist cultivation) story with a sensual twist centered on the tortured gay romance between a morally gray disciple and his sorely misunderstood cultivation master.

Emotions of jealousy, rage, thwarted desire, hatred, and addiction run deep throughout the story. It’s a type of story that’s meant to unsettle your soul, and it did have that effect on me. The portrayal of the lead couple Mo Ran and… show more.

Probably the most astonishing book I’ve read in the last five years. Imagine every dramatic extreme you ever thought you wanted in a novel—love, intrigue, brutality, violence, scenes as sweet as candy, spectacular magic, cataclysmic struggles, good and evil writ large across the sky... Then imagine that they were all packed into the same novel and that novel was so hilarious that you laughed out loud, so profound that you quoted it unintentionally, so heartbreaking you had to actually read through tears. Compulsively readable with characters that readers love, hate, hate to love and love to hate. It gave me… show more.