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The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang

84 reviews

edenpecha's review

Completely flat, unpredictable, and erratic characters with the pace of the book happening at unpredictable and unnecessary paces that don’t contribute to the story telling.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Addiction, Rape, Genocide, Self harm, and Abortion

naemi_wn's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Transphobia, Drug use, Classism, Death of parent, Mental illness, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual violence, Addiction, Gaslighting, Ableism, Racism, Bullying, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Abortion, Death, Sexual assault, War, Physical abuse, Grief, Toxic relationship, Injury/Injury detail, Rape, Genocide, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, and Blood

kh02's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Everyone has raved about this book but to me it fell kind of flat. I would rate it 3 stars for the first half and 4 for the back half. There’s a specific chapter or 2 that is extremely tough toward the end, so be cautious. I sobbed listening to those chapters. The Poppy War can get VERY heavy.

They are based on the real horrors that occurred at Nanking and contain graphics of rape, baby killing, genocide, bodies floating in the rivers, etc.

I did enjoy it! It’s one I would recommend to people, but I did not love it. Wren (sp?) the main female character is very whiny, full of herself, & can get annoying. Really hoping she progresses throughout the trilogy!

Alton’s (sp?) ending is beautifully tragic and I hope his sacrifice makes a difference! Already Wren is struggling with it in book 2.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, War, Blood, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Violence, Grief, Bullying, Child death, Colonisation, Abortion, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Animal cruelty, Rape, and Sexual assault

laraamaee's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

Wow. Ok. This was the most violent book I have ever read. I’m on a mission to read all of Kuang’s work now, and I wasn’t prepared because I thought this was fantasy. Oh no…the atrocities in this book have really happened before (Second Sino-Japanese War, Rape of Nanjing). I got nightmares when I read this before bed…

But the story is intensely gripping and Kuang’s writing is incredible as ever, even if the book’s pace speeds up Very quickly after Rin’s training. Each time I thought, No, the situation can’t get any worse… it did … and there’s 2 more books?!? How am I going to cope…

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Panic attacks/disorders, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Sexual violence, Body horror, Torture, Physical abuse, Mental illness, Genocide, Vomit, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Drug abuse, Death, Sexual harassment, Gore, Animal cruelty, War, Sexual assault, Medical trauma, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Addiction, Violence, Rape, Child abuse, and Abandonment

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Abortion, Suicide, and Pandemic/Epidemic

lenacamci's review

adventurous dark emotional informative reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

La guerre du pavot construit un univers inspiré de l’histoire de la guerre de l’opium, la chine et le japon. En faisant des parallèles historiques assez facilement identifiables, l'histoire aborde les enjeux géopolitiques en plus de l'arc narratif du personnage principal. Il y a tout un lore fantasy travaillé avec une religion, des shamans, l’histoire et la culture de chaque peuple etc. 

Mais le vrai point fort, c’est son personnage principal: 
Rin a au premier abord un peu le syndrome de l’héroïne insignifiante et rejetée qui est en fait spéciale mais elle est vraiment un personnage imparfait mais déterminée qui se construit au fur et à mesure de l’histoire en fonction de ce qui lui arrive. Elle reste maître de son destin, prend des décisions difficiles car elle sait ce qu’elle veut (et ne veut pas) et travaille dur dans cette direction. 

Il y a beaucoup de réflexion sur la moralité dans la seconde partie

par rapport aux horreurs de la guerre et des décisions à prendre et leur conséquences quand il n'y a pas de solution idéale pour le bien de tout le monde.

L'histoire change complètement de rythme et de ton. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Genocide, Injury/Injury detail, Abortion, Addiction, Rape, Body horror, Sexual violence, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Sexual assault, Drug abuse, Drug use, War, Colonisation, Death, and Gore

jodiesbookishposts's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Oh what a book. This hollowed me out.  There were parts of the book so visceral and raw - it didn’t stray from the horrors of war.  Read the triggers before considering as this is not for everyone.  

This should become a classic fantasy series - I hope the following books hold to this standard 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Genocide, Injury/Injury detail, Abortion, War, Addiction, Child death, Rape, and Violence

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Colonisation, and Murder

shellbow's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Genocide, Grief, Rape, Torture, Addiction, War, Xenophobia, and Death

Moderate: Ableism and Abortion

samhitha_reading's review

adventurous dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Addiction, Body horror, Abortion, Murder, Child death, and Genocide

Moderate: Confinement and Colonisation

chronicacademia's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Abandonment, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Drug use, Genocide, Kidnapping, Abortion, Forced institutionalization, Addiction, Misogyny, Torture, Violence, Medical content, Murder, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Death, Gore, Racism, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Blood, Body horror, Racial slurs, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, War, Child abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Physical abuse, Slavery, Suicide, Ableism, Colonisation, and Fire/Fire injury

cocochanel5's review

mysterious reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

The way I wanted this book to end but wanted it to keep going. I was so ready to be done with it but still wanted to read. Idk if it was the kindle version but the grammatical errors along with missing info annoyed me. For instance they would be going to the mountains and then all the sudden the horse needs to rest. Like when did they get a horse?! I’ll probably read the rest of the series but you definitely need a break from the amount of death in this story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Blood, Sexual assault, Bullying, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Suicidal thoughts, Animal death, Rape, War, Gore, Death of parent, Torture, Murder, Self harm, Abortion, Cursing, Death, Child death, Violence, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual violence, Addiction, and Child abuse