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A review by electraheart05
The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang
adventurous
dark
emotional
tense
slow-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? It's complicated
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Addiction, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide, Blood, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Colonisation, Classism
Please make sure you read content warnings! This book gets intense towards the end of part 2 when it comes to war, gore, abuse, rape and anything dealing with war/genocide. At the end of the day this novel is a war novel and it’s dipectuons of war are intense and at times disturbing. Because it is heavily and I mean heavily inspired by the 2nd Shino war between China and Japan.
Tiktok likes to advertise this as an enemies to lovers and that is not true not in the slightest.