paulareadsstuff 's review for:

The Burning God by R.F. Kuang
5.0
challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
do it. take what you want. I'll hate you for it. but I'll love you forever. I can't help but love you. ruin me, ruin us, and I'll let you.

history moved in such vicious circles.

I'm done. I don't even know what just happened. it all went sideways so fast wtf. wtf wtf wtffff. I knew it'd end in tragedy, it was the only way it could end, but this???? how did we get from sinegard to this????

this has got to be the rawest, most painful and acceptable but unacceptable ending to a series. or just the series as a whole.

but this book. I was going to give it 4 stars, just because the pacing felt so slow at times (but it also didn't, it's just very long and shows me everything. which in retrospect, it's all necessary), but I can't give it less than 5. I didn't think I'd suffer as much as I have in the last 20 pages, I was heartbroken but in a more pitiful sense. now I'm just utterly heartbroken, in tears and I can't stop.

rin and kitay, you are the siblings ever. give me more platonic love like this. I need it, because the way these two love each other is so moving. literally no power can come between them, they truly are soulmates.
nezha, my broken boy who deserves so much better than what he's got. the world truly can't stop fucking you over.

there's so much more I want to say about it but I can't
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