高陽的歷史小說與傳統的世情小說、筆記小說、時事小說及掌故野聞類歷史小說有著承傳的關係，包括世態人情的描寫、較不注重因果律、在小說中插入非事件、珠花式結構的運用及以野史筆記入小說等。這種創作方式雖然導致小說較缺乏統整感，卻因此創造出更寬廣、更逼近常俗的歷史小說閱讀趣味。

Gao Yang's historical novel has inherited relation with traditional secular novel, literary sketches, current event novel, and anecdotes historical novel, including description of realities and human feelings, paying less attention to causality, and plotting non-event, fancy bead structure and unofficial history into the novel. Although this kind of novel writing method leads to lack of sense of integration, it creates a wider and more common fun in reading historical novel.