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The Dragon Republic by R.F. Kuang

1144 reviews

kevinhsuwho's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Violence, War

rachelemiller's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Blood, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Abortion, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

vlawsreads's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Gore, Racism, Rape, Blood, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

maiahhtratchh's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark emotional tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Child death, Self harm, Torture, Forced institutionalization, Religious bigotry

Minor: Cannibalism

cjp213's review against another edition

1.5

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Dark and emotionally a very difficult read

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Violence, Xenophobia, Abandonment, War

samanthabreading's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative sad 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

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When this book kicked off in our book club, I asked our group “On a scale of backyard campfire level to volcanic eruption 🌋, how much fire and wild do you predict for this next book? I am personally thinking the latter.” This was accurate! 😂😥

While The Poppy War took me a couple of weeks to finish, I struggled putting book two down and consumed all of its fury and destruction in just a few days!! I did enjoy The Poppy War, but had a couple dislikes with the pacing and how the ending all unfolded. However, I LOVED The Dragon Republic! I understand some may have thought the pacing of this one was a slower at first, but I appreciated Kuang’s expanse of the world and navigating more of Rin’s emotions and trauma in addition to her valid rage and drive for vengeance. Many characters in this series seem to make very questionable decisions in this book, but I actually was drawn in, trying to understand their intentions and motivations behind their actions throughout. It was also heartbreaking and frustrating seeing Rin being manipulated so much at this point in her young and difficult life 🥺, but this was contrasted beautifully with Rin’s development of friendship along the way. The only suffering this book did not entail was suffering from second book syndrome. Kuang continued to hammer on the important themes of power and control, and delivered an unyielding and profound lens of war, grief,  and a brutal fight for survival. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Violence, Murder, War

Moderate: Animal death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Abortion

ukosakul's review against another edition

3.25

dark sad tense

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Gore, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Torture, Blood, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Colonisation, War

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Blood

Minor: Child death, Cursing, Gaslighting

sofstappen's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, Injury/Injury detail

kryzysowa_narzeczona's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal death, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Grief, Cannibalism, Religious bigotry, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Minor: Abortion

sarapriz's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark emotional sad 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Toxic friendship, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism