spencerseas 's review for:

The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang

5.0

adventurous challenging dark tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Good god. This book is so richly imagined. I don’t know what else to say really - the book did not let go of me. It lived in me. I’m so glad I’m reading it with the whole series already published because I could not handle anything else right now. RF Kuang does not fuck around. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Blood, Excrement, Police brutality, Grief, Murder, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Vomit, War