Pure Jade

Painting the Mists, Book 4

De: Patrick Laplante

Narrado por: Adam Verner

He’d like to forget, but the pain runs deep....

After fighting off a group of bandits, Cha Ming helps a people rebuild. His heart is heavy with guilt, but he can’t stay long. To face an inevitable foe, Cha Ming must journey to Quicksilver City, where he’ll meet the man who once enslaved him. Will he find the courage to face him?

Meanwhile, Huxian, the two-tailed fox, is enjoying his new role as the ruler of a demon mountain. The perks are great, but the position comes with heavy responsibilities. When Cha Ming’s friend Wang Jun finds an immortal-jade mine on his doorstep, he has no choice but to defend it.

It’s Huxian’s pride against Wang Jun’s ambitions. Cha Ming must find middle ground. If he doesn’t, he’ll lose one of his friends. Forever.

©2020 Patrick G. Laplante (P)2020 Podium Audio

Good

This one was better then the last the story and pace was good I can not wait for the next one

yummy

good recipes for hot soup in this book! ok not really but the story is enjoyable even if they don't tell us how to make soup.

Great comeback!

Book 3 was a bit of disappointment but if viewed as foundation for this book then it can be redeemed! This book was great it had a steady pace and kept you enthralled to the very end!

'Black lines on the forehead' is exasperation

Overall the book is good though the characters are a bit whiney; but I wanted to say every time I hear 'black lines on the forehead' in the story I just want to smack the author in the back of the head. For those who don't understand the phrase it is a visual reference of exasperation in a manga or anime, when an author who read to many Mangas or read to many Japanese light novels and yes if you read a translation it has that phrase it is because they either can't remember or don't know the name to that emotion or state however you want to phrase it.

Better than last book that's not saying much

I'm out this series has gone downhill fast this book is better but who cares a boring turd or a lot less boring turd

Starting over and constantly handicapped

It’s written like a first book, settling up for the MC to start stuff. It’s annoying after such a slow, weird book 3. It gets old and annoying to have to wait until the “good guys” are about to die for anything to happen every time. No amount of work prep or luck means anything because you’ll be in the same almost losing position. It’s so overdone it gets corny.

Between that and the constant crippling of the MC, the whole story becomes a repetition of sad, obvious tropes. It honestly takes away from the detail and enjoyment I want to have in the story. We get it, you watched dbz growing up. But this isn’t that and you don’t do it as well. Meh due to author’s laziness with structure.

Oh, and tactics are nonsensical when it would make for a bigger struggle for the good guys. We should just believe things are terrible for them and there’s obvious reasons they shouldn’t take the advantage when they can. The author tries way to hard to make it a struggle for the MC. It’s not just having to barely win, at any point in a major fight if the good guy is doing well, they’re about to get screwed. Even if they did the whole overcoming odds and finally getting an advantage, the author will not stand for it. He will immediately make it almost impossible for them. It’s a drain on listening when rooting for the good guys is a losing proposition while the story tries to argue for morality.