Heart of the Sun Warrior

I am so sad to write this review, but I had such high hopes for this book and I just didn't enjoy it at all. I loved The Daughter of the Moon Goddess and was excited to not only delve back into the world, but also have a nice conclusion. I felt really let down. Xingyin was an amazing character in the first book, independent, likable and strong, but in this book it was like she forgot all the things that made her great and became a soppy love-sick teenager who couldn't put aside the ridiculous love triangle to actually DO anything. She was so headstrong in the first one, but here she lets others make the decisions for her. I mean this book is literally hopping from one thing to another, with no rhyme or reason or meaning, just so that Xingyin could debate herself over the romantic interests. One of which, I can't even believe was a love interest at all in this book, I was definitely not a fan of that twist. The magic, adventure and light romance of the first book is completely gone in favour of a cringey love triangle. I had to push myself to finish it in the end and I was positive that if one or other of the guys eyes ‘shuddered' when Xingyin spoke one more time I was going to remove that word from my dictionary. No disrespect to Sue Lynn Tan, but I just couldn't get on board with this one and the choices she made to take the story were just not my taste at all.