A review by mxrvch
The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang

dark sad

5.0

Cabrón…. Cabroooooon…….. CABROOOOOONNNNN!!!!!!
HONESTLY THIS BOOK WAS JUST OUT OF THIS WORLD. LIKE, WHAT!!! 

I saw once someone complain about the fact that Rin is a bad person and that made her somehow a shitty MC? She’s a genocidal maniac, of course she’s a bad person. Throughout the story, we see her descent into madness that she can’t stop. And, frankly, sometimes it doesn’t seem like she wants it to stop. We were shown she was ruthless since the very start. She fucking burned herself to study, for fucks sake. How and in what world does that make her a shitty MC? No sé. Me da mala espina porque si Rin fuese un hombre siento que no hubiese visto gente hablando asi. Quizás estoy estirando demasiado el chicle. Pero es que, coño, un personaje principal  (independientemente de su género) no tiene que ser un héroe o hasta amigable para ser una buena MC.