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hannah_bug 's review for:
Heavenly Tyrant
by Xiran Jay Zhao
This second book is much more well written than the first, I enjoyed the last 200 pages immensely. Zetian is everything I wanted Rin in The Poppy Wars to be. She struggles with her humanity and still doesn't come out perfect in the end. She makes mistake that hurt people, and has to live with the consequences. Yet she shoulders them and her own identity with pride, in the end. Shame is a large obstacle for her.
I will say, in its length, the plot becomes lost amongst the tumultuous political landscape. As an anthropology major, this book presents a stunning array of political and personal statements about power, truth, and suffering of humanity. It showed a very philosophical and well-read background from the author, who was able to build complex characters whom you still rooted for— despite the suffering endured, despite thinking in oppsing ways. In its essence, the book is about putting power back into the hands of people whom make up the community they serve. Nobody is correct, only striving to be better than the old regime that came before them.
As an aside, to the author: all those wonderful sensual scenes and you couldn't elaborate on the one thing you used to advertise this book to me?? I needed a longer pegging scene than a paragraph, love.
I will say, in its length, the plot becomes lost amongst the tumultuous political landscape. As an anthropology major, this book presents a stunning array of political and personal statements about power, truth, and suffering of humanity. It showed a very philosophical and well-read background from the author, who was able to build complex characters whom you still rooted for— despite the suffering endured, despite thinking in oppsing ways. In its essence, the book is about putting power back into the hands of people whom make up the community they serve. Nobody is correct, only striving to be better than the old regime that came before them.
As an aside, to the author: all those wonderful sensual scenes and you couldn't elaborate on the one thing you used to advertise this book to me?? I needed a longer pegging scene than a paragraph, love.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Violence, Medical trauma, War, Classism