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Surprisingly fresh story that is hard to put away.
A very nice read for advanced learners that won't shy away from vocabulary outside of the JLPT level. The Genre is somewhat hard to lock in, we got some history elements, some romance, some comedy, some crime and drama and a little bit of mystery sprinkled in at times. So to figure out if you like it, you could start with the Anime or the Manga first before you dedicate your time to the Novel.
As for a brief description, we do follow MaoMao, a incredibly curious and rather capable Apothecary that gets dragged into the chaos and intrigues that is the life of the Inner Palace.
So if you are roughly at a N1 level, that would be a nice novel to immerse yourself in. You might add a lot of interesting historic vocabulary to your knowledge - a lot of which you might actually encounter again and that might give you some serious head start when you want to dive into classical Japanese (or Chinese for that matter).
So yea, absolutely recommended, especially for advanced learners.