Stars of Chaos: Sha Po Lang Vol. 1: Pilot and Personnel Issues

My daughter loved it and completed entire book reading in 2 days that much she got hooked to book🙂

Though a translation from a different language, this book manages to preserve all the beauty of the original. It is in places so funny it’ll startle a laugh out of you, in places so poetic your heart will hurt within your chest. It contains both fight scenes and intricate politics, both of which are so well explained you’ll never find yourself at loss.Speaking as someone who has read many Chinese novels translations, and has read 3 other translations of this specific novel, I can guarantee it is amongst the very best written books I’ve ever read, and one of the best translated I’ve come across.Book 1 in this series also introduces someone I consider to be one of the very best main characters ever written: Gu Yun.He’s an extremely vibrant, endearing character, and ridiculously attractive. He is a character forced to deal with a major disability while also being burdened with immense responsibility and a nearly Godlike reputation and holds immense power.Gu Yun (aged 20) manages to simultaneously be a grouchy grumpy old man, a frail sickly fragile beauty, an arrogant shameless flirt with no hang ups over gender, a very brilliant and powerful military general whose mere name terrifies his opponents into surrendering and just a mortal man weighed down by the responsibilities and pressure he’s constantly dealing with.In subsequent books, he’s also an unattainable object of Chang Geng’s devotion and then caring, romantic figure who will make you blush and kick your feet and cry with his sincerity.This book, the first in the series provides the set up to its sequels where Chang Geng would truly come into his own and go from a perceptive, introverted little boy with talents that can’t be contained by his tiny village to a statesman who controls the destiny of an entire nation and reshapes and rebuilds the world around him as an act of love.Stars of Chaos/Sha Po Lang is a breathtaking adventure that takes you on a journey across and beyond the borders of a nation in turmoil and lets you watch as characters you come to know and love will play a role in reviving and reforming it. These characters just happen to be gay, bisexual, gender non confirming, and disabled, and their role in the story is as main and supporting characters and heroes who revive their nation.It speaks of issues such as the impact of technological advances on humans and jobs, about the horrors of war, about the silk route and so much more with humour and maturity. And yet the romance at its core is so tender and gentle and sweet that it feels like a warm hug from someone you dearly love.I sincerely hope you all will give this book and it’s sequels a try, I’ve never read anything as brilliant and wonderful as it, and I hope it’s as life changing for you as it was for me.

Apenas lo voy a leer. He leído otros trabajos de este autor por eso lo compre pues seguramente me va a gustar como los otros

Qualidade um pouquinho inferior em comparação com seus irmãos (yuwu e 2ha) pq ta bem mais molinho e fino a capa e as folhas, mas de resto é ótimo e chegou em 1 semana aqui em Rondônia

Stars of Chaos is Chinese BL fantasy set in a slightly more modern alt-history Empire than the other books in the genre I’ve read. Westerners (spearheaded by the Pope!) have established trading and diplomatic relations with the Empire, and there’s new, exciting steam technology powered by violet gold. There are airships—with kites instead of balloons—and automatons among other things. The army especially makes use of these inventions, keeping the Empire powerful. But everyone covets the violet gold, making it worth wars and treachery.Chang Geng is thirteen when barbaric northerners invade his small rural town, breaking a peace that’s lasted fourteen years, to stop the Empire draining their huge reserves of violet gold. But their presence in his town isn’t random: they want Chang Geng.Turns out, Chang Geng’s life has been a lie, and he’s a more important person than he thought. Not that he believes a word of it, a great cause of internal conflict for him. But even worse is to learn that his godfather—so elected because he once saved Chang Geng’s life—isn’t who he’s claimed to be either.Chang Geng is whisked off to the Empire’s capital to live with his godfather there. The story follows the pair trying to come to terms with their new life as a family. Gu Yuo is utterly unsuitable for a father figure; he’s too young and selfish, and he’s mostly absent with the army anyway. But when, at fifteen, Chang Geng tests his limits by setting off to see the world, Gu You follows, only for the pair to stumble on a coup.The story is advertised as a boylove romance, and it’ll likely head there eventually. In this first volume, Chang Geng rather abruptly becomes aware of his feelings for his godfather, a cause of great agony for him. Gu Yuo, however, sees him only as a child, and isn’t interested in men anyway. He has his own troubles to deal with, issues that he hasn’t shared with Chang Geng, making the boy mistrust him.Chang Geng and Gu Yuo were interesting characters, more nuanced than in average web novels. The side characters were fun and had a proper role in the story. Narrative was more coherent too, with no internal inconsistencies that so often plague these stories. Either it’s written as a novel and not serialised first, or it’s been properly edited for a book.I don’t know how many volumes there are in the story, but if each take only a couple of years of their lives, it’ll be a long time before it reaches the romance part. But I’m here for it.

Parfait, arrivé en bon état, à temps. Lecture différente mais agréable