Book Blogger Hop: A Book That Deserves More Love

It’s Friday, so it’s time for the Book Blogger Hop again, hosted by Billy @ Coffee Addicted Writer. I’ve made my own image from a stock photo (credit: Anna Shvets) to avoid adding images created via generative AI to my blog. Feel free to use it too if you would like! This week’s prompt is about bigging up a book you love and think doesn’t get enough attention: What book do you think deserves more love but flies under the radar? This is really difficult! So I’m just going to go with a recent read that I actually had trouble finding other people talking about: Liu Gou Hua’s After the Disabled God of War Became My Concubine. It’s a danmei novel in translation, in four volumes (three out so far), and despite the funny title, I think it’s one of the better danmei I’ve read recently. If you haven’t read danmei before, or come across me talking about it, danmei are gay love stories which often mix in a variety of genres. Mo Xiang Tong Xiu’s works are set in a variety of fantasy worlds and…