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The Dragon Republic by R.F. Kuang

1152 reviews

glowing_trilobite's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark emotional funny sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

All of this FOR WHATTTTTT???

SHE’S RIGHT BACK WHERE SHE STARTED BUT NOW WITH MOST OF HER FRIENDS DEAD!!!!

but fr this book was so well written I LOVED reading about

Kitay’s and Rin’s friendship and how they were not only able to mend what was broken but also become bonded??? tears in my friendship loving eyes I love that they were only thinking of each other in the moment that they each said yes and no.

FUCK NEZHAAAAAA literally fuck that guy i KNEW he was evil but like frrrr??? I hope to soon watch his mother get tortured in front of him or something like literally the white people gotta goooooo.

anyways I was shocked by every plot twist and every new character added as well as every old character that passed

(jaw on the floor at poor little Ramsa may he rest in peace)

ALSO my fav Venka being the absolute BADASS that she is I literally love her sm she’s such good rep for women who have been thru enough shit to not give a single fuck anymore and I just love her for it. Finally it wouldn’t be a review if I didn’t talk about the main character a bit…. girl.

Like I’m so sorry Rin but it’s one thing to get bamboozled once but AGAIN??? She seriously needs to figure out her need to please the authority in her life bc bruhhhh she was pissing me off only listening to the closest man in her vicinity and having absolutely no backbone of her own like i get being a 20 year old woman feeling like a lost little girl and needing guidance but she had so many people around her that were willing and able to give her actually good advice and not just telling her to fight to her death all the time. I think she’s learned her lesson by now but she was really getting on my nerves before lol.

Overall this was such a good book with all of the character flaws and development and twists and turns it really made me feel all the emotions which I always count as a win.

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cristianafm's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous 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: Complicated

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kotacoyote's review against another edition

2.75

challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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olivetheotherreindeer's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous dark sad tense medium-paced

This book was pretty good! I think I liked the first book in the series best (minus the parts that marked it down in my review) as far as world building and lore, but this one seemed very purposeful, and even parts that made me uncomfortable circled back around and made me feel better about the content. The book was a solid 3.5 story wise then had that content I thought was unnecessary which brought it to a 3.25 but when it gained purpose it brought it back up. Good story overall, plot twist ending I didn’t see coming. I’m a Hopeless romantic. This book is about war. Katara and zuko romances will never be. Sad day.

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m3ndk's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH: 34%

It's fiction, what other reason do I need ?

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mkhertzenberg's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

This book is great but I’m a little surprised it’s the highest rated of the trilogy! Was definitely a bit slower than book 1.

Still on track to be the most violent series I’ve read. Think I’m gonna take a bit of a brain break before tackling book 3.

I love Kitay so I’m glad he’s back in the fold more. Rin and Nezha teaming up was one of my favorite parts of book 1, but them reverting back to enemies was inevitable. So many awful things happened throughout the book that by the time some of the more significant and sad deaths happened at the end it didn’t feel as impactful as it should’ve.

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