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A review by olivyre
The Dragon Republic by R.F. Kuang
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Spoilers!
This book was so freaking good. One of my favourite series? Probably. I’d say so.
This book was so freaking good. One of my favourite series? Probably. I’d say so.
I’m so muddled in who I should be rooting for that it’s brilliant. Everybody has great ideologies – the Dragon Republic, the Nikara Empire and apparently the Mugenese too – yet none are realistic, and nobody will follow through and everyone is vying for power. They’re all so evil but they’re all right in their own ways. Morally grey, I love it.
I adore Kitay and Rin’s budding platonic relationship – I know they’ve been best friends since Sineguard but we hadn’t really seen their friendship in action much until now. And Venkha also: she’s becoming quite cool.
Nezha’s betrayal hit me right in the ‘What the Fffff’ I did not see it coming. At all. Enemies to lovers to enemies again? I bet they’ll become lovers again in the next book.
The oncoming battle will be epic.
‘Or maybe, she thought, with stars this bright, if you believed that above you lay the cosmos, then you had to construct a yurt to provide some temporary feeling of materiality. Otherwise, under the weight of swirling divinity, you might feel you had no significance at all.’
‘Or maybe, she thought, with stars this bright, if you believed that above you lay the cosmos, then you had to construct a yurt to provide some temporary feeling of materiality. Otherwise, under the weight of swirling divinity, you might feel you had no significance at all.’