Review by dijae - The Poppy War

dijae 's review for:

The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang

3.5

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

I really liked the first half of the novel, strong world building and I also love a good training arc. Towards the latter half it started falling more flat? mmm there didn’t seem to be that much character development and the mc seemed to just circle around the same things(probably the point). The action scenes felt more muddled and I felt myself getting lost while reading . But when it picked back up, it was brutal and just wow. Overall was a good read very invested in the storyline and yeah it just gives everybody gone die. But it’s really interesting to see this story playing out history in a world where humans evoke gods and act through them.

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