Unite that empire.īecause you KNOW it’s historical fiction. And you’ll hope that indeed Rin could win and could keep her world with her traditions. When you were convinced Rin was making the wrong choice but miracle happened and it turned out, if not exactly right, less worse.īecause of course there will be victories. “It’s realizing the future does not include you” Why would my religion, my culture, my beliefs be above, better than others? With the Hesperian’s conquest, their desire to push their religion as the only true religion, their condescending attitude towards Nikan people, their certainty that THEY were right and the others were barely above animals … it truly hit home what we, European, did with our conquests and colonization. Or her world nearly ended many times too.īecause THIS IS WAR! And not the sugarcoated war we can often read in YA books but the bloody, messy, war with amputated limbs, cannibalism, gore, famine, countless of deaths.Īshamed at being white Christian (if you are one that is) because that’s how I felt. For their world.īecause Rin will make so many bad decisions or decisions that seemed good but turned bad that she nearly died …many, many times. One thing is certain: RF Kuang is like none other author who wrote what some qualify as YA, even if she does not like labels for her series.įor Rin and Kitai. Very reassuring Jeann, thanks for the pep talk! And she told me “Oh dear! It gets even worse nearing the end”. More than 5 stars and six stars for the whole seriesĪt one point I was so anxious and afraid that I sent a “SOS” to a fellow bookstagrammer, Jeann who I knew had already read it.
As her power and influence grows, though, will she be strong enough to resist the Phoenix’s intoxicating voice urging her to burn the world and everything in it?
While her new allies in the Southern Coalition leadership are sly and untrustworthy, Rin quickly realizes that the real power in Nikan lies with the millions of common people who thirst for vengeance and revere her as a goddess of salvation.īacked by the masses and her Southern Army, Rin will use every weapon to defeat the Dragon Republic, the colonizing Hesperians, and all who threaten the shamanic arts and their practitioners. Returning to her roots, Rin meets difficult challenges-and unexpected opportunities. Kuang’s acclaimed, award-winning epic fantasy that combines the history of twentieth-century China with a gripping world of gods and monsters, to devastating, enthralling effect.After saving her nation of Nikan from foreign invaders and battling the evil Empress Su Daji in a brutal civil war, Fang Runin was betrayed by allies and left for dead.ĭespite her losses, Rin hasn’t given up on those for whom she has sacrificed so much-the people of the southern provinces and especially Tikany, the village that is her home. The exciting end to The Poppy War trilogy, R.
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