(Also, there are no spoilers in this review until the end when I give out the warning!!) I actually can’t think about this book without crying, so this review is basically me as an emotional wreck. Not only did Kuang bury the knife deep into my heart, but she twisted it causing me excruciating pain. This has quite literally left a scar on my heart and soul forever. It’s to the point where every single time I close my eyes, I picture the ending and that is not okay. No book like The Burning God’s ending has ever made me sob this much. And me, the masochist, keeps going back to the last two chapters sobs what am I doing to myself?įunny how I said that reading Clockwork Princess, The Hero of Ages (etc) were the most I’ve ever cried - HA I lied. What is happiness? This is so depressing. My heart totally didn’t feel like it was being ripped out of my chest and thrown into a shredder! I totally did not go to sleep crying and wake up again crying! I totally don’t feel like I need someone to pay for my therapy bills! Guys, this was the happiest book ever!! Happy ending! Happy characters! Happy everything! Kuang couldn’t have written it better! Everyone’s happy, safe… I dont know why people are saying this is heartbreaking? If anything, it’s heartwarming!

Kuang’s acclaimed, award-winning epic fantasy that combines the history of twentieth-century China with a gripping world of gods and monsters, to devastating, enthralling effect. The exciting end to The Poppy War trilogy, R. As her power and influence grows, though, will she be strong enough to resist the Phoenix’s intoxicating voice urging her to burn the world and everything in it? While her new allies in the Southern Coalition leadership are sly and untrustworthy, Rin quickly realizes that the real power in Nikan lies with the millions of common people who thirst for vengeance and revere her as a goddess of salvation.īacked by the masses and her Southern Army, Rin will use every weapon to defeat the Dragon Republic, the colonizing Hesperians, and all who threaten the shamanic arts and their practitioners.

Returning to her roots, Rin meets difficult challenges-and unexpected opportunities. After saving her nation of Nikan from foreign invaders and battling the evil Empress Su Daji in a brutal civil war, Fang Runin was betrayed by allies and left for dead.ĭespite her losses, Rin hasn’t given up on those for whom she has sacrificed so much-the people of the southern provinces and especially Tikany, the village that is her home.

The poppy war series