![]() ![]() ![]() Kuang, with the first installment published in 2018 and the final installment, The Burning God, published this November. The Poppy War trilogy is a grimdark fantasy series by R. Her drive to accumulate power is motivated, above all else, by a growing thirst for vengeance. ![]() (There are clear parallels with 20th-century China.) Instead, as a dark-skinned orphan from a backwater province, she is fueled by a deep-rooted sense of injustice, an instinctive understanding of the imbalance in the world. Yet Rin is unwilling to become a mindless tool for Nikan, the recently unified empire of 12 provinces. “CHILDREN CEASED to be children when you put a sword in their hands,” protagonist Rin muses after she’s placed in her country’s top military academy, where she’s taught to discard her sense of self and join the war machine. ![]()
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