To the Sky Kingdom

I sincerely regret buying this book and also regret having to give it one star when I believe it doesn’t deserve any. I encountered this book by partly trying to read “Ten miles of peach blossom” translated in English and only found the book in Chinese with an English description about what its about. I didn’t know that this book was somewhat “Ten miles of peach blossom” I just thought it was a regular Chinese fantasy book, which is the biggest reason why I bought it, because I was interested in any good Chinese fantasy book and wanted to see what’s so great about it. I’ve barely read that far into the book not because I wasn’t liking the story, I was it’s just that I don’t always read the same book I like to read books at different times or at the same time. I’m writing this review now because I just found out about something very sad and disappointing.... A week or so ago I found the manga version of “Ten miles of peach blossom” on manga rock an app that lets you read mostly any kind of manga that you may think of from any author. I was scrolling through manga that they recommended to me based on the ones I read and liked. I was surprised and glad that I would finally get to read “Ten miles of peach blossom”, but as I read a few pages I thought I recognized the setting of the book where Susu was pregnant and about to give birth to Ye Hua’s child from the book “To the sky kingdom” I realized a little than that despite the different names of the books they are both the same story. I looked up online to see if both books were in a series and then fully realized that this definitely is “Ten miles of peach blossom” or “Eternal love” which people like to call it. I then looked to read some reviews on people’s thoughts of the book on good reads and what I read from some Chinese people made the right side of my cheek burn with embarrassment. Apparently this book is not actually written by the person Tang Qi who calls themselves the author but is a plagiarized work from another author who wrote a gay novel and other books. I felt so ashamed to have realized that I payed for a book that was funding a theft and probably hurting the original authress more wherever she may be. After reading the reviews I immediately took the book from my bookshelf and put it in my cart to sell on a sell back book website.

The concept of this book is amazing, BUT this is not the work of the authors'. After doing some extensive research, it is unfortunate to say that this book is the product of plagiarism, the stealing or repetition of work that another author put time, creativity, blood and sweat into, while the work is stolen and someone else is given the credit. NO matter how much you would like to read it, there's a drama based on this book known as "Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms", you can enjoy that instead without funding plagiarism and be insulting the real author of this novel. Support creativity, not theft.

I'm sorry to tell the people who doesn't know that this book is copied from another book called Tao Hua Zhai, which is a Chinese BL story. The main characters, story structure are all copied from that book and only some details were changed. The book - To the Sky Kingdom has a terrible reputation in China. As a Chinese, I feel so sorry and ashamed that this Chinese author earned your money by lying. Recently this book was filmed into a drama, many people got interested in it, PLEASE do not watch it any more! You may feel sad, or don't care about it, but writing a book is not easy, those who steal other people's work don't deserve readers' and audiences' love, or money.

If the accusations of plagarisms are true, then this author and this translated work does not and should not deserve ANY kind of support, especially the monetary kind. What Tang Qi did is basically an act of literary bigotry: she knew she could get away with plagarizing a BL novel because China unfortunately is still homophobic and closed-minded and the original author cannot defend herself publicly in any effective capacity. Just thinking of how predatory and evil a person Tang Qi must be to pull something like this off without batting an eye fills me with disgust and seething anger. This a-hole of a human being is basically a narcissistic sociopath. Just reading about some of the lengths she went through to legitimize her plagarism and bully Da Feng Gua Guo, the original author, is enough to make my toes curl. Tang Qi really has no shame and I hope karma gets her one day. If you guys support this sicko, you are basically supporting gay-bashing and bigotry. I would love to read the original work so at the very least some legit translator who isn't willing to support a plagarist should translate The Peach Blossom Debt and provide it to audiences here on Amazon. Perhaps if this disgusting case of plagarism is more widely known, the original author may finally get the recognition and profits she deserves. I actually enjoyed watching the tv series of which this fake work was based upon but now, knowing the dark story behind it, I literally cannot bear to watch it anymore.

The style of writing that Tang Qi uses took a bit of getting used to by me, but once I did I enjoyed the book quite a bit. I, like many others, saw the drama "10 Miles of Peach Blossoms" and heard so much about the book from the comments that I decided to get it. I'm glad that I did - the books always give you a much better idea as to what the characters were thinking, much better than the actors can portray. (No slight there - those actors were fantastic! It was just a very complicated story) There were some variations from page to screen but nothing that couldn't be reconciled. I liked the last 100 pages best - when the very complex story came together and all of the seemingly loose ends tied together in a perfect knot. Patience is needed - not a book to rush through. Take your time and enjoy the fantasy!

Watch the series first and then read the book. The book will fill in some settle holes missed from the series. I liked I was able to imagine the additional details in the book with reference to the characters and scenery shown in the series. If you are a big fan of the main characters you will also enjoy the book more because it focuses primarily on them, less side stories.

This book is plagiarized. Do not recommend to anyone. Such a shame to the society.

The novel is PLAGIARIZED!!! This novel was copied another Chinese bromantic novel. The auther Tang Qi just replaced two original main male characters with a man and a women. The original novel called "Tao hua zhai", and this two novels have more than 50 story lines highly similar. Here is the link of a fan to compared two novle:[...]

To the sky kingdom is a book that will take you to another world. It was interesting reading this book coming from Western culture and having very little knowledge of Asian beliefs. One thing I will say about this book is there's a lot of names and a lot of stories going on and therefore is a book to read in a short while. This is not a kind of novel you can pick up and put down throughout a three month period.
This book begins with a mortal girl who has been carrying an immortals child and finally gives birth. But she has been tricked by jealous women that made her believe she was not loved. In this book time it's not really a consideration as most of the key characters are in mortals and therefore live tens of thousands of years. The moral girl jumps off a pillar ending her mortal life, this is when she realizes she is truly an immortal who has lost her memory. She begs to have the pain of loss love taken away and her memories wiped clean. The rest of the novel is spent with this in mortal falling in love all over again with the man who treated her poorly. This novel is a great love story with complicated drama and heart wrenching moments. It is very up-and-down in emotion and will make you feel like you want to shake the characters and tell them they should not be so foolish.
In conclusion, I would recommend this novel for anyone who enjoys worldly stories with a hint of romance. It does take you to another time and culture to have you experience things we don't often get to read about.

This was splendid, and perfectly captured the the feel, breadth, and scale of an actual story from Chinese mythology. This was a wildly ambitious story to tell, and Tang (and the translator, Toland) pulls it off spectacularly. Western readers may experience some culture shock: this story is firmly rooted in Chinese mythology, particularly about the highly complex and hierarchical structure of the immortals and gods who live in Heaven. Tang dives right into the story with little to no introduction of the world, and those who are unfamiliar may have a steeper learning curve than others. The pacing is also different from most Western fantasies, and perfectly mimics the old Chinese folktales. The pace is slower and the plot development more circuitous. (But everything connects! Promise!)

I loved this a lot. I got sucked into the story and just didn't want to leave. I loved seeing Tang's interpretation of the Heavenly Kingdom, and how she weaves in different elements of classical mythology. I loved all the characters, particularly the two main ones, Bai Qian and Ye Hua, and Ali, who was a delight. The plot is also delightfully twisty.

This is a brilliant story. And the translation was gorgeous and lyrical. I really hope to see more by this author translated into the English. I would definitely read them.

(I received a free review copy from the publisher.)