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Kang, J.C. (2018-05-02). "R. F. Kuang Interview – The Poppy War". Fantasy-Faction . Retrieved 2018-05-12. With no other options, Rin joins forces with the powerful Dragon Warlord, who has a plan to conquer Nikan, unseat the Empress, and create a new Republic. Rin throws herself into his war. After all, making war is all she knows how to do. Rin’s shamanic powers may be the only way to save her people. But as she finds out more about the god that has chosen her, the vengeful Phoenix, she fears that winning the war may cost her humanity . . . and that it may already be too late.
Three times throughout its history, Nikan has fought for its survival in the bloody Poppy Wars. Though the third battle has just ended, shaman and warrior Rin cannot forget the atrocity she committed to save her people. Now she is on the run from her guilt, the opium addiction that holds her like a vice, and the murderous commands of the fiery Phoenix—the vengeful god who has blessed Rin with her fearsome power. i also love how rins character is developing. she definitely lives in that morally gray/middle area, but the reader exists in that area right along with her. even if i didnt agree with some of the choices she made, i could definitely understand and empathise with her.There are so many questions and cliffhanger left for the other book! It’s brilliant sequel and I don’t know how my heart will survive with so much tension! I want to read more! It was long reading but not long enough for me! You will die thinking I have abandoned you all. But I do not hesitate to say that I value the lives of my people far more than I have ever valued you.” After I got frozen and motionless, my loved ones (or my haters took the control of my keyboard and wrote their impressions after I read this book. I left it without editing, changing, deleting or adding anything!) As a summary: Dark fantasy lovers, this series are getting so much better. I highly recommend this second book of this series!
Rin and the Cike set out to take down the ship, but instead they’re captured by NEZHA WHO IS STILL ALIVE PRAISE THE LAWD. All kidding aside, The Burning God shows us the true effects that the Hesperians – a very obvious allegory for the British – have on Nikan. The battle lines have been drawn anew after Yin Vaisra’s victory over Empress Su Daji. The House of Yin, and consequently, Nezha, want to bring the empire into a new age of modernization, aided by the Hesperians. But only if the empire is willing the pay the price of conversion to the Hesperian religion and the outlawing of all shamans. Obviously, this is not a price that Rin – and the rest of the Southern Coalition, as well as the teeming masses of the empire – are willing to pay. Rin writes to Moag and tells her that Vaisra plans on double crossing her. Hopefully this will get Rin into Moag’s good books if things go sour here. She would have liked Nezha to kiss her, too. She would have liked to share this final memory with him before she fled. But he only stared thoughtfully at her, his mind fixed on something she couldn't guess at.”
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She had a weapon now. She wasn't defenseless against him. She'd never been defenseless. She had just never thought to look.” The deeper, more nuanced answer to that question is this: the only true villains in this series are the whites. My first point is, in and of itself, purely observational and didn’t directly affect my rating. In my opinion, this series is not Fantasy. Fantasy, by definition, is that which comes from ones imagination, whereas this series is based, with some truth, on actual historical events. A more accurate genre designation would be ‘Historical Fiction’ with mythological elements. In fact, in 1000 years, if every other account of modern Chinese history were lost and this was the only text remaining, this would likely become Mythology. The names of people and places would all be wrong and the mystical shamanic powers would be a stretch but the general shape of events, however sparse, would be there.
White, Peter (2020-12-08). "Starlight Media Developing TV Adaptation Of Rebecca F. Kuang's Fantasy Books Including 'The Poppy War' ". Deadline. Archived from the original on 2022-04-14 . Retrieved 2022-04-14.
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Between us, we have the fire and the water. I'm quite sure that together, we can take on the wind.” This is what the balance of power looked like now. People like her waved a hand and millions were crushed within the confines of some elemental disaster, flung off the chessboard of the world like irrelevant pieces. People like her-shamans, all of them-were like children stomping around over entire cities as if they were mud castles, glass houses, fungible entities that could be targeted and demolished. There are a bunch of refugees outside the city walls now. They’ve been fleeing from everywhere. Rin goes looking for her old tutor but bumps into her aunt and step brother instead. Rin is unhappy with the way these people are being treated but she can’t really do anything about it.
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