• Blood Moon

  • Painting the Mists, Book 2
  • By: Patrick Laplante
  • Narrated by: Adam Verner
  • Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (904 ratings)

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Blood Moon

By: Patrick Laplante
Narrated by: Adam Verner
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Publisher's summary

The kindest hearts make the cruelest villains.

The perfect tools if you know where to buy them....

Cha Ming’s new brother is a demon fox. He’s cute. He’s naughty. And he’s always hungry. If only Godbeasts didn’t grow so damned quickly. When the duo joins their classmate Gong Lan on an expedition, they soon discover that not everything is as it seems. It’s not rebels they’re fighting, but devils wearing human skins.

Can they disrupt an evil merchant’s soul trade without the help of the army? Gong Lan’s techniques are driving her mad, and it’s only a matter of time before she turns on them.

©2018 Patrick Georges Laplante (P)2020 Podium Publishing

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A soup so full it became pudding

This is much like the first book. But, with too many events and too many named people.

The first book had a slower pace, there would be down time and lead up to important events. It had a good flow and I was able to take it in. But, this book is one important event after the next in rapid fire. I still enjoyed much of the book, but without down time there is no room to grow and develop characters. I only really felt connected to the MC from the first book, and this was enough to bring me through the story.

The second main issue is related to the first. There where just way to many named people in this book. Incorporating so many people into the main story made it really hard to tell who did what. There was more than one time when I realized someone was familiar, sometimes after they were already dead. But, no time was spent on the reader's connection with these characters nor time reintegrating them into the reader's attention when they appear later in the story.

So, this book had too much stuff, and everything suffered from a lack of space or attention. But hey, the third book looks like it may be better, so I've pre-ordered.

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Great with one main issue

I enjoyed this book just about as much as the first one. I liked the growth of most of the characters, the problem comes with the most over powered cultivation to ever exist "BLOOD". I was frustrated how this cultivation allowed 4 breakthrough moments for one of our main characters in less than a month, like what? I would think most people would want to use blood cultivation, and the lack of blood cultivators feels like a huge plot hole, if it is such a fast track to power.

Let's compare for a second, the MC has a clutivation for body and spirit made by a being who claimed to defeat GODS and he is at a much lower cultivation compared to this blood cultivation chick. I am sorry but that just feels a bit off to me, I do not mind the MC not powering up as fast but he has a several thousand year old dude inside his mystic brush to teach him AND he had some lucky breaks, this chick can just go "ahhhh blood make feel good" and get major jumps in her cultivation, this bothered me greatly and I had to stop several times to understand why the author needed all these crazy jumps in power for her, and even by the end I was still bothered by it. I still liked the book though and would recommend it.

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I really like the first book, but...

I really enjoyed the first book despite some mild to moderate sexism. This book tried to make female characters more prevalent but the author is clearly unable to view female characters as real people. He never talks about any of the male characters being “sexy”. But the first real female fighter we get is “sexy” and “slender” and has a “perfect slender body”. Gross, I’m returning it and not continuing the series. I hope this writer learns how to write women in the future because I liked the story and the world.

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This story is right for anyone who liking fighting. I hope that anyone who like to read will get this book

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I loved it.

Okay! I just finished! Tbh I loved the book! If you enjoyed book one of this series then you will also enjoy this one! The characters are great and the story is thrilling. While the MC is strong he is not over powered. He can be beaten and he can win against the odds. I’m living the series and can’t wait for the next one.

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Just getting better

I am so glad that they changed the Narrator because this series is just getting better and better. No complaints about this book. They didn't go overboard on filler, the characters are all developing in ways that make you want to see what happens next, and No plot holes. You should read this.

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Bad POV changes

Instead of adding multiple acts, the author pads this out with filler POV changes that kept causing me to lose interest. Villains are everywhere in any world so they aren't important until they impact the protagonist. These are super short dime novels rather than epics so the brief POV change chapters authors like Sanderson and Martin have as epilogues or prologues between acts have no place here. I don't need foreshadowing in a novel this tiny.

Honestly, this put me off the series as they're all quite short and I have a much higher bar for dime novels on Audible because they cost the same as full novels. I'll happily buy them if they are great, but that's rare. The first novel had my hopes up.

I get that the author might think the audience is bored with constant Cultivation, but there are ways to make it interesting. . . or he can just skip it. This is fiction and not a Cultivation primer. If the book is too small, have two acts. Filler POV changes aren't the answer.

Still 3 stars. If you skip the filler and wait to learn what happened when it becomes relevant to the protagonist, the novel is fun.

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Good

I like the one better the. The first the pace and story is good I can not wait for the next one

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Insipid, returning it

I remembered that I was less than dazzled by the first book, but I was looking for something to read and thought the writing might have improved, but either I remember the first volume too fondly or this volume is even worse.
Its high handed, vapid, insipid, and not very original. There’s no subtlety, at all. I actually feel for the author.
The narrator makes the whole experience worse, not sure if it’s because of the writing or despite it, but I feel like I’m being sold rotten tomatoes and told they’re premium quality - that’s the emotion I get when listening to the story.
Cannot finish and am returning this book after just a few chapters.

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Gave it a shot but too many red flags

I listened all the way through the first installment and enjoyed it well enough despite some early red flags. But the writing has progressively gotten more sexist (for no reason that would add to the story) and there have been a couple weird incest moments that give the biggest icks. Additionally, I know there’s debate around white authors writing people of color or utilizing other cultures traditions, well this is an example of how NOT to do it. As an Asian person I feel like I’ve spent the last 10+hrs (between book 1 and how far I’ve gotten into book 2) listening to a caricature made by a well meaning neighbor who just got back from their 3month backpacking trip in China.

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