The title characters translate as “Tomb Robbing Notes” but, for clarification, Wikipedia in condensed form says much more:  “Daomu Biji (traditional Chinese: 盜墓筆記), variously translated as Grave Robbers’ Chronicles, Grave Robbery Note, and The Lost Tomb, is a novel series about the grave-robbing adventures of Wu Xie, a young man hailing from a family that had been tomb-raiders for centuries. The series was written by Xu Lei (徐磊), better known by his pen-name Nan Pai San Shu, and first serialized online at Qidian China, a website for publishing, writing, and reading novels. Written over a span of five years and published as nine separate novels, it was one of the most popular novel series in China from 2007.  The author also wrote sequels, Zang Hai Hua (藏海花), and Sha Hai (沙海), which continued the leading character’s story, neither of which were finished at the time of the author’s announcement to retire from writing in 2013.  The author returned to writing in 2019 with another unfinished sequel, Reboot: Thunder at the Distant Sea (重启之极海听雷). Along with Ghost Blows Out the Light, Daomu contributed to a craze and subsequent market in the Greater China area for novels focusing on grave-robbing that also deal with the supernatural.”  This set is structurally similar to others in this series.  Grade: 1