Fast Paced and enjoyable but I actually preferred the first one I just felt there wasn't enough intrigue until the end of the novel and Gang and Liu didn't really work for me as there wasn't much background on them, I thought at one point we would when Liu asked to have a separate room to the others in the barracks but it was never explained why .Haung Promotions seemed predictable to me as I've already seen it before (maybe read too much fantasy novels) I do like the magic of the wu and reading about Taiji ( )