The last 5 chapters are the best and most interesting. It took me a long time to finish the book, because I felt stuck in Dante’s Purgatorio, but I finally made it out. I liked the setting, minor characters or antagonists, and challenges met by the protagonists. The reader gets to explore a new side of Mulan’s narrative, as well as learn about Chinese mythology through Mulan’s quest to save Li Shang’s spirit in a world of monsters, ghosts, and demons, oh my!īesides print, you can also check out an ebook from Hoopla or eBCCLS/Overdrive and even come inside the library to check out some other Mulan oriented materials including the animated film.The same themes keep recurring and when you think it’s finally resolved it comes back so you feel like you’re really in the “underworld.” I assume this book is for a younger audience that might benefit from repetition. This book pays respect to the Mulan movie while giving it an incredible twist. When night falls, she’s approached by the spirit of Shang’s recently deceased father, General Li! General Li has Mulan agree to go into the underworld of Diya to ask King Yama to spare Li Shang’s soul from being reincarnated. Because of Li Shang’s declining health, Mulan is desperate to find a way of keeping him alive.

Here’s where the book takes off in a different direction than what we as Mulan fans are used to. The Hun Army is destroyed but at the cost of a gravely injured Li Shang. But there’s a twist just as Mulan was about to set the rocket towards the mountain, General Li Shang jumps into action to protect Mulan from Shan Yu’s lethal attack and is wounded instead of Mulan. You, the reader, are put in her shoes as she can’t help feeling obligated to do her duty to save her fellow soldiers and China. Like the movie, Shan Yu pursues Mulan as she points the rocket towards the mountain’s peak. You are thrown into battle with Mulan against Shan Yu’s Han Army at the snowy banks on a Mountain of the Tung-Shao Pass. The story takes off as if you were channeling into the middle of an action-packed movie. In the Young Adult Department, we have an excellent young adult book called Reflection by Elizabeth Lim that is part of the Disney Twisted Tales Series.

Reflection by elizabeth lim