Ari's Reviews > The Founder of Diabolism

5 completely addicted as fuck to this book for perhaps my entire fucking life at this point stars

Here’s a very short summary of why I adore this book so much:

1. Wei Ying and Lan Zhan: I just adore how on the surface you can’t get two people anymore different from each other, but then the moment you peel off the first cover you realize that they are the exact same person. They share the same morality, view and respect for people, one single brain cell, sense of sacrifice, and crazy ass love for the other. *cries at the sheer perfection*
2. An incredibly huge assortment of very well built characters: Ahh.. I think this just says it all. The character tray is crazy, and the way the author has taken care to give almost everyone at least some compelling backstory is to put it into one word- brilliant.
3. ANGST. Angst. and. A-N-G-S-T: Look guys, you have one person who died a horrible death due to political manipulation and misunderstandings, and the other who waited 13 years in a world that treated the love of his life like trash without knowing if he would ever see him again, and that is just the beginning.
4. Excellent depictions of political ideologies. Urgh, this post is long enough already, so I won’t say much more.
5. How every single character acts as a foil to another: Again another thing that you need to read the book to understand.
6. Look man, we have a guy who turned into a villain solely because Lan Zhan is too fucking pretty. Period. And I just love how every other villain has a really strong moral/circumstantial reason for their acts of villainy, and then there’s this guy.
7. The confession scene: *chefs kiss* ‘nough said.
8. WangXian and rabbits. You will get this if you read the book.

You can read my entire fangirling on my blog here .