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The Poppy War
by R.F. Kuang
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This book is completely masterful.
But PREPARE YOURSELF. It is dark and Kuang does not pull punches when it comes to wartime atrocities. She lulls you into a false sense of security with the jokes, and the character development, and the bringing pigs up mountains and then BAM - everyone's dead and their bodies have been mutilated, woman have been savagely raped, and the MC is possessed by a god and addicted to opium and committing genocide.
The writing itself was brilliant, and the ways in which Kuang writes about characters as full, complete humans who are flawed (and whose flaws cause all kinds of problems) is devastating (in the best way possible). I am both excited and scared to start the next book.
But PREPARE YOURSELF.
The writing itself was brilliant, and the ways in which Kuang writes about characters as full, complete humans who are flawed (and whose flaws cause all kinds of problems) is devastating (in the best way possible). I am both excited and scared to start the next book.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child death, Death, Sexual violence, Violence, Murder, War