J T

Good try. Loved it very much at the beginning. The second half though is disappointing. Having white people as baddies is something refreshing, but forcing a character into doing something bad to proof the point that all white people are bad is just weird and not convincing. The whole logic of the book doesn’t make sense too… If Robin really wants to change the world, shouldn’t he go back to China, where apparently where all the silvers are, and teach people how to use them? To make the world a nicer place, and given that they already know the silver magic actually doesn’t cost as much as it seem, shouldn’t they invent a way to make silver bars easily accessible to the poor? No, instead he thinks blowing up the new technology (silver magic) is a good idea. (In this logic we should go and set all AI servers on fire?) I appreciate the historical background added into this book and love how we finally read a fiction from the lenses of non-white. But I dislike distorting characters to proof a theory. Unless there is some irony I missed to catch, the 2nd half is disappointing to me despite being an Asian myself. It is still a good story book to read if you don’t think deeply about the plots and logic behind.