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Kuang, with the first installment published in 2018 and the final installment, The Burning God, published this November. In the book, Rin is now the leader of the Southern Coalition, which is going to war with Vaisra. The Poppy War trilogy is a grimdark fantasy series by R. Kuang states in an interview with Andrew Liptak that Rin is based on Mao Zedong. Kuang and was published by Harper Voyager on November 17. Kuang drafted that first book, The Poppy War, when she had just read about the Nanjing Massacre, an infamous episode from the 1930s war between China and Japan. 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. The Burning God is a grimdark fantasy novel written by R. Returning to her roots, Rin meets difficult challenges - and unexpected opportunities. Kuang's acclaimed, award-winning epic fantasy that combines the history of 20th-century China with a gripping world of gods and monsters, to devastating, enthralling effect.Īfter 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 exciting end to The Poppy War trilogy, R.F. Black can't seem to decide whether he's writing a Disney wild ride, with a fantasy cowboy genie who lives in a tin of chewing tobacco and talks in verse a grisly look at rodeo, where inexperienced riders get killed by 2,000-lb. In prose that's a rhapsody to tall tales and the serial comma, the narrative twitches this way and that. 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