I was also really disgusted with how Rin treated everyone around her. That's even more magnified here, where Rin spends the bulk of her narrative shrieking, yelling, insulting people, threatening people, mooning over the man who used to abuse her, and gulping down opium like a stoner with a Slurpee. Parts II and III were where her characterization began to fragment and it was like she unlearned everything that had made her interesting. As I said in my review of TPW, I really enjoyed Part I and admired the author's ability to show a character who was hard-working but unlikable. one that's hard to bounce back from.Īs soon as I began THE DRAGON REPUBLIC, my hopes for the book began to sink. I did wonder where the author was going to go from there, since having a book end with your main character committing a grave atrocity is definitely a choice. Even though I had some reservations about THE POPPY WAR, I did ultimately end up enjoying it, even if I couldn't quite put my finger on who the target audience was or what it was trying to achieve.
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