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Опиумная война by R.F. Kuang

2266 reviews

dijae's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

I really liked the first half of the novel, strong world building and I also love a good training arc. Towards the latter half it started falling more flat? mmm there didn’t seem to be that much character development and the mc seemed to just circle around the same things(probably the point). The action scenes felt more muddled and I felt myself getting lost while reading . But when it picked back up, it was brutal and just wow. Overall was a good read very invested in the storyline and yeah it just gives everybody gone die. But it’s really interesting to see this story playing out history in a world where humans evoke gods and act through them.

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khelene's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark tense fast-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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hollokim's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-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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siraeth's review against another edition

4.25

challenging dark emotional funny informative 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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ladyleshwi's review against another edition

4.5

challenging 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

Siento que leí una trilogía en un solo libro, la primera parte podría ser cualquier libro de fantasía que se sitúa en una academia militar pero Kuang se niega a caer en los plots fáciles y digeribles por el publico, y, a partir de la segunda parte, nos deja en claro que va a hacer lo que sea necesario para mostrar las consecuencias de la guerra de la manera más realista posible y va a hacer preguntas muy incomodas que tienen que ver con la venganza, el genocidio, la xenofobia, etc.
Mi única critica es que algunos de los pensamientos de Rin eran algo repetitivos, pero dentro de todo me gusto mucho su prosa y cumplió con su cometido.
Ah otra cosa, hubo un punto en la tercera parte del libro en el que Rin parecía solo observar lo que pasaba a su alrededor y Altan se convertía en el protagonista, tipo fue medio raro.

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livault's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny inspiring mysterious 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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apt3's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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bethharbour's review against another edition

2.75

dark medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Ehhhhh I thought I was going to love this book, and then my enjoyment of it just absolutely nosedived. Rin is such an unlikeable MC in my opinion, her motivations are confused (

she discovers she’s a Speerly, barely makes any effort to learn about it but suddenly takes on their anger and vengeance for herself and loses all the development she went through with Jiang in favour of mad bloodlust

), and apart from Jiang and Ramsa, I didn’t really like any of the other characters. It’s well written, but as other reviewers have mentioned, some of the violence seems gratuitous and unnecessarily graphically described at times. It really felt like it flip flopped from a YA fantasy in the first half to a really dark war story in the second half, not for me really.

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