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Lost You Forever Chapter 29: Misty Fog and Water, Longing Impossible to Forget

A Koala's Playground Posted on June 1, 2014 by ockoalaJune 1, 2014

This chapter has an incredible scene involving Xiao Yao, Xiang Liu, and Jing. We need more scenes like this. I felt like Once Promised was always about the big picture in both novel construct and story perspective. The battles between the three Godly kingdoms, the grand and epic love between Xiao Yao’s parents, all the various princes and princesses struggling between … Continue reading →

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Lost You Forever Chapter 28: Yard Full of Spring Air, Worry at the Corner Wall

A Koala's Playground Posted on May 25, 2014 by ockoalaMay 25, 2014

A major breakthrough happens in chapter 28 of Lost You Forever and it’s not on the romance front. Zhuan Xu’s quest for the Xuan Yuan throne reaches a pretty startling decisive point and how it goes down is completely unexpected for everyone involved other than the still wily as a fox Yellow Emperor. One wonders if the formerly ambitious and … Continue reading →

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Lost You Forever Chapter 27: When Waves Ripple on Flat Ground

A Koala's Playground Posted on May 18, 2014 by ockoalaMay 18, 2014

What makes Lost You Forever that much more impressive is that Tong Hua does serious mythology building and tells a story beyond romance and love triangles and who loves whom. That stuff is great but I’m just as keen on the world of the various God kingdoms and the conflicts between gods and demons and the general immersion into a … Continue reading →

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Lost You Forever Chapter 26: The Returning Wind Carries Well-wishes

A Koala's Playground Posted on May 11, 2014 by ockoalaJuly 23, 2014

This chapter of Lost You Forever is beautiful and bittersweet for all three male leads. Each had a chance with Xiao Yao at some point in their interactions with her and either blew it (Jing), never did anything (Xiang Liu), or can’t do anything (Zhuan Xu). Chapter 26 sticks them all together with her at a wedding and boy is … Continue reading →

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Lost You Forever Chapter 25: Suddenly Hear the Sorrowful Wind Tune

A Koala's Playground Posted on April 30, 2014 by ockoalaMay 1, 2014

This is the chapter in Lost You Forever where the shit hits the fan for Xiao Yao and Jing. It’s high time these two faced the enormity of the pressures against them getting together rather than stubbornly cling to the hope that Jing can just somehow make it happen. I think Jing’s intelligence is no less than Zhuan Xu or … Continue reading →

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Lost You Forever Chapter 24: Love and Hate are Inextricably Tied Together

A Koala's Playground Posted on April 22, 2014 by ockoalaApril 23, 2014

When the Gods live so long in Lost You Forever, months is really days and years really months and hundreds of years merely a year the way we experience it. Hence waiting has less duration and more a feeling of holding onto a hope. Jing’s fifteen year promise with Xiao Yao is long over since she’s slept thirty-seven years in a … Continue reading →

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Lost You Forever Chapter 23 : Familial Strife Demands No Rush

A Koala's Playground Posted on April 14, 2014 by ockoalaApril 15, 2014

I think it ironic that in Lost You Forever Xiao Yao has three amazing leading man in her life but really none of the three comes equipped with everything she wants in her life. At most we can say one has more than the others, or really it comes down to what she prioritizes first. Xiao Yao keeps saying that … Continue reading →

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Lost You Forever Chapter 22: It Feels Like Such a Long Parting

A Koala's Playground Posted on April 7, 2014 by ockoalaMay 18, 2014

In all of Tong Hua‘s historical novels, she chooses to write about characters who often have epic identities, but in doing so each is bound by responsibilities and ties that cannot be easily forsaken. What makes Lost You Forever interesting is that we get to sneak a peek at how these awesome characters like Xiao Yao, Jing, Xiang Liu, and … Continue reading →

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Lost You Forever Chapter 21: Embracing in Life, Following in Death

A Koala's Playground Posted on April 3, 2014 by ockoalaApril 3, 2014

A fair word of warning – this chapter of Lost You Forever is intense. Jawdropping calamity of the first order arriving with almost nonstop action a few paragraphs in and doesn’t let go type of intense. Next chapter is easily one of my personal favorite chapters in the entire novel, but before we get there we need to experience what … Continue reading →

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Lost You Forever Chapter 20: The Time is Quiet Spending it With You

A Koala's Playground Posted on March 30, 2014 by ockoalaMarch 30, 2014

This chapter of Lost You Forever is delicious because it’s lifted straight from a romance novel’s heart thumping goodness, i.e. there’s making out straight ahead. It’s also a Jing-centric chapter and one that is much needed ever since Xiang Liu debuted his Fang Feng Bei alter ego and waltzed into Xiao Yao’s life and sorta parked himself in her heart in a … Continue reading →

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Lost You Forever Chapter 19: Standing Out in the Wind All Night

A Koala's Playground Posted on March 27, 2014 by ockoalaSeptember 5, 2023

When I read Tong Hua‘s other novels, it was easy to have favorite chapters and even favorite volumes, but that didn’t happen with Lost You Forever. There is always something to savor in each chapter, each with a crescendo and a comfortable lull that is pivotal to building the narrative. That probably also comes with loving all the leads so … Continue reading →

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Lost You Forever Chapter 18: Green Plum Collects Longing

A Koala's Playground Posted on March 25, 2014 by ockoalaApril 17, 2014

This chapter starts the second volume of the novel Lost You Forever. This volume has the English title Love You Forever and really does spend a lot of time on that pesky feeling called love. I think it’s safe now to reveal my personal preferences in this novel, I kept it close to the vest so I don’t influence readers … Continue reading →

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Lost You Forever Chapter 17: Swimming Upstream Seeking You, The Road is Long and Hard

A Koala's Playground Posted on March 20, 2014 by ockoalaMarch 20, 2014

This chapter 17 of Lost You Forever marks the end of Volume 1 of the novel. Volume 1 was simply titled Lost You Forever, but Volume 2 is further titled Telling of a Sorrowful Love, while Volume 3 has the additional title of Longing Without a Horizon. That gives a glimpse of what is to come, but before we get … Continue reading →

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