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A rather excellent read.It does not go into the nitty gritty details and thus it doesn't drag out.It establishes Qiao Yan's character properly too.It's fast paced, it does not linger too long on each "arc".Lots of interesting meetings of historical relevant characters.The only bad thing is the wrong named used in a few places instead of the correct name. There's also the typical problems of He\She, but it's not annoying. Some text is missing\cut off so a little bit of context for some situations will not be there, but again it's not a big issue.Characters:They're not super deep, some is skindeep and some is abit deeper. Since this is not a novel about deep characterisation I find the depth offered by the novel to be just fine.Qiao Yan is rather well created character, I wish she had a few weak sides. Atleast she isn't omnipotent and has to actually rely on her subordinates. She's meant to have the character of a true reknown emperor (empress) and this is true I feel.Story:I feel Qiao Yan adapted abit too fast, but she also had no choice considering her starting point.Other than that it doesn't go super deep and drag things out. Nor is it skin deep. The pacing of the story is just about right not slowing down too long nor speeding to the action too fast.There is some errors when it refers to the actual Three Kingdoms period with "historical info" and it leans more on the Romance of the Three kingdoms novel rather than history (certain fictional characters from the RoTK novel pop up in this novel such as Hua Xiong and Diaochan).Despite a few errors and flaws, it's a delightful story either way.Should you read it?Yea give it a try. I wouldnt place it among the top favourites of mine, but it kept me awake alot just to binge read it.