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4.3 AVERAGE
4.3 AVERAGE
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
inspiring
reflective
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
adventurous
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
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
This series is like my new favorite
I cried (somewhat shamefully) in the back of an Uber while finishing this book.
I devoured this book and it devoured me in turn. Not for the faint of heart, this book is dark and painful and nasty most of all because nearly every character feels deserving of empathy and love even when they commit the cruelest acts.
If you’re a Poppy War fanatic this duology is mandatory reading, go forth and suffer.
I devoured this book and it devoured me in turn. Not for the faint of heart, this book is dark and painful and nasty most of all because nearly every character feels deserving of empathy and love even when they commit the cruelest acts.
If you’re a Poppy War fanatic this duology is mandatory reading, go forth and suffer.
adventurous
challenging
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
This book was so stressful for me I can't ever live through it again.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Sexism, Violence, War
Minor: Miscarriage
adventurous
dark
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
adventurous
dark
emotional
slow-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
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
Even more painful than the first book, but just as captivating, and the conclusion was also so satisfying. As much as I loved the first book, this one may have outdone it.
adventurous
dark
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
I like the idea of the book. If only it didn’t insist on repeating itself over and over and over again.
adventurous
dark
emotional
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
“But Zhu would be emperor; not despite who she was, but because of it”
This may be one of the most spectacular sequels I have ever read.
I was incredibly impressed by 'She Who Became the Sun' when I read it last year - it earning its place as my favourite of the Sapphic Trifecta. But this, this went well beyond my adoration of the first book.
Every second I spent with this book, every page I read, I was hooked back into this world of complex and morally ambiguous characters. Because that is truly where this series, as a whole, thrives. This book offers a veritable feast of complex and ambitious POV characters who each hold within them a pain and grief that drives them near as much as their ambition and goals. I shed tears with these characters, I followed them through their darkest actions and their deepest wells of pain - all because of deep character writing that is honestly masterful.
This duology was simply fantastic and I will likely be crying about the second to last page for some time.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Rape, Self harm, War
Moderate: Homophobia, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Murder
Minor: Miscarriage, Vomit, Pregnancy
dark
reflective
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No