Book: A
Bright Heart
Author: Kate
Chenli
Pages: 432
Date(s)
Read: June 17th, 2025 to August 5th, 2025
Date
Published: October 17th, 2025
Genre: asian-fiction, fantasy, time-travel,
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Rating: 4/5
Characters: 5/5
Writing style: 5/5
Story: 4/5
Ending: 5/5
Cover: 4/5 (special edition)
Format: Hardcover (Faecrate edition)
Date Bought: 2025
Book Cost: $30.00
When I
first read A Bright Heart I gave it three stars and thought the last third of
the book was a mess. After my reread of it I have no idea what I was thinking.
This is a great book, it's very fast paced, action packed, and romance filled.
In A Bright
Heart Mingshin is betrayed by her lover Ren. Ren jails her and kills so he can
marry her cousin Aylin. As Minghsin lay dying she prays for a second chance.
Her prayers are answered and she wakes up two years before her death and vows
to do things right this time.
Mingshin is
a lovable, intuitive and intelligent female lead you will always side with.
There's never a moment in this book you won't be cheering for her. The male
love interest, Jieh, is affable and good looking. He's not your typical
brooding, overly possessive male love interest. He actually values Mingshin for
her mind and see's her as a person rather than an object to possess.
I was
overly harsh when I read this the first time. I'm not sure why, but on
rereading this in preparation to read the second book, I found myself glued to
the pages, even knowing the bigger points of the plot because I had read it the
previous year. If you like asian fantasy worlds, dramatic political intrigue,
family drama, and a love story with depth, you will appreciate A Bright Heart.
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