A review by tkhenry99
The Dragon Republic by R.F. Kuang

3.75

rin continues to be absolutely insufferable for 650 pages. the side characters are all immensely more interesting and pleasurable to read about.
such a shame rin avoids chaghan like the plague for most of the book and then he fucks off to the tundra for the rest of it


the plot lines started getting a little redundant by the end.
it’s literally just “this government is evil!” about literally every government in the series—first the mugenese, then the empress, then the hesperians/republic


also i get the whole brutalities of war thing but writing out/killing off literally everyone in cike except rin and chaghan (only bc he’s literally not in arlong) was a bit frustrating


also confused about what happens to the cike’s addictions….? the book explains rin’s but are we just supposed to assume everyone else had the same experience….? rin never asks them about it…..? 
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