A review by emkaypee
The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang

4.5

This book was so incredibly dark but so well written. The world building was done so well that it truly felt like reading a story that has actually happened. It was definitely gruesome, though. Check your trigger warnings. If you can't handle detailed descriptions of extreme violence, sexual assault and literal genocide, this book isn't for you. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Murder, Physical abuse, Rape, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Vomit, and War