Reviews with content warning for Rape - The Dragon Republic

somehow i was hooked the entire time but also so annoyed by Rin’s attitude throughout this book, it’s like she never grew up, always a little girl searching for everybody’s approval but standing up for herself once in a while
i honestly couldn’t stand her, everybody treated her like a stupid child and she didn’t contradict them
but i was never bored and always wanted to keep reading

what the fuck is up with Nezha ???
first he loves Rin, then he betrays her ??
also i loved that she finally realized she was being used and decided to escape, but hated that the ooonly eay she could’ve escaped was by killing Ramsa, Baji and Suni, the only likeable characters :/

but the WORST thing by FAR is the religious BULLSHIT the Hesperians say to justify using shaman’s as guinea pigs, saying they aren’t “natural” and that their god Chaos “rules over them” and they need to be “cleansed”
like wtf live and let live idiots, and RIN DOESNT DEFEND HERSELF FROM THEM AT ALLLLLLLLL

AND WHEN VENKA WAS RAPED AND SHE WANTED TO ABORT HER RAPIST’s BABY AND NEZHA’s MOTHER CURSED HER BECAUSE OF IT AND WOULDN’t LET HER WTFFF

1000000 people died and that was what enerved me the most

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adventurous challenging dark emotional tense slow-paced

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

5.0

WHAT THE FUCK.

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julia206's review against another edition

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dark tense 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? Yes

5.0

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arytia's review

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adventurous dark sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

For most parts of the book I had trouble to understand the reasoning behind EVERY character. But especially Rin. Like omfg make up your mind what you want to do. She even annoyed me most of the time because she said one thing and did the total opposite 🫥
But the plot is still good and I’m a sucker for military and strategics so yeah. It’s okay ig

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adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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adventurous dark emotional tense 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? Yes

4.75

I love Nezha so much, it physically hurts. Actually, this might be the reason why I liked this book even more than the first part. It also definitely helped that stuffTM happend to Rin, that will forever justify all of her rage to me.

I am so heartbroken, I loved the last "happy" chapter where they got drunk and had fun. I knew a betrayal was coming because I got spoilerd but I convinced myself that it would be that Rin leaves Arlong. I am mad at Nezha but I also... can understand him in some way? I think he's just very naïve and really believes in the Republic. I bet it hurt him too, having to betray Rin. He also really cares about the people, he faced his dad when Rin was still much more concerned with winning this war then the fate of the southeners.

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