The Witch Nichang

There are a lot of novels out there with terrible pacing and nonexistent plot; this, I am happy to say, is not one of them. It's an easy quick read and it handled the 'two people initially not friendly with each other become lovers' trope gracefully. It is a cultivation novel with martial arts, but unlike some cultivation novels it doesn't drag the story and pacing down but is, as it should be, merely a supplement to the plot and something to spur action (instead of 5 chapters of just one guy training like you see in some webnovels - you won't find that kind of bad pacing here at all). Maybe I'm judging it against low standards, but, I enjoyed it. It isn't a particularly deep or complicated novel, but not all novels need to be, and that isn't to say there are no moments of angst. Human emotions are depicted well here. The wolves (who the female love interest was initially raised by) were mostly depicted well as well, but were just a shade unrealistic - nothing truly glaring though, they don't talk or act super doggish or anything like that, but I've read better wolf depictions. I'm guessing most people who read the novel are going to be in it for the lesbians and not the wolves though, and probably won't notice anything off unless they're a biologist.