the story was enjoyable and i loved the modern twist emily x. r. pan put on the tale of chang'e and houyi (which was also a tale i never read before). but what was going on with the writing style? after loving the lush writing in "the astonishing color of after", i was expecting something similar here, but overall, the prose was bland in my opinion. the extremely short chapters (like 2-4 pages) and the constant switch of perspectives made it feel very choppy and i found it extremely hard to get into a reading flow.