Reviewed by Angie on

2 of 5 stars

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YES!
+Huang Zixia is a lady detective. She had been helping her father crack cases since she was 12. Now she's 17 and on her own, as she was framed for her family's murder!
+She must clear her name, find her family's real killer, and solve the Four Directions Case that has China in a panic. Prince Li Shubai will assist her if she also helps him with his case.
+Huang Zixia is disguised as a eunuch!

NO!
-Detective mysteries aren't one of my usual genres, so that's more my bad, than the book's. But I had a hard time getting into it, maybe half the book.
-What happened with the Prince's "cursed" paper?
-Who killed Huan Zixia's family?
-I am not a fan of the whole "Let me present all of the obscure and unrelated evidence and tell you about events that happened twelve years ago that I was not present for or old enough to remember and tell it as pure fact, because one of you is a murderer!"

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