However, although I had a good feeling about this debut, I certainly didn’t expect it to be THIS incredible. They’re incredible.) Reading that the book is highly inspired by Second Sino-Japanese War also the Rape of Nanking-please look this up if you don't know about it so you’ll have an idea of how dark the book will get-sparked my interest even more. I’ve been eyeing this book ever since I stumbled upon the gorgeous attention-grabbing cover by Jung Shan. Once in a while, there comes a book that you just know will be a fantastic book just from the premise or the cover this was one of those books for me. Ladies and gentlemen, let me present to you a review for The Poppy War, a book that will go down as one of the best grimdark/military fantasy debuts of all time. I have no doubt this will end up being the best fantasy debut of the year. and that it may already be too late.ĪRC provided by the publisher-Harper Voyager-in exchange for an honest review. 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. Rin’s shamanic powers may be the only way to save her people. And while most of the people are complacent to go about their lives, a few are aware that a Third Poppy War is just a spark away. The militarily advanced Federation occupied Nikan for decades after the First Poppy War, and only barely lost the continent in the Second.
Exploring the depths of her gift with the help of a seemingly insane teacher and psychoactive substances, Rin learns that gods long thought dead are very much alive-and that mastering control over those powers could mean more than just surviving school.įor while the Nikara Empire is at peace, the Federation of Mugen still lurks across a narrow sea. Targeted from the outset by rival classmates for her color, poverty, and gender, Rin discovers she possesses a lethal, unearthly power-an aptitude for the nearly-mythical art of shamanism. That she got into Sinegard-the most elite military school in Nikan-was even more surprising.īecause being a dark-skinned peasant girl from the south is not an easy thing at Sinegard. When Rin aced the Keju-the Empire-wide test to find the most talented youth to learn at the Academies-it was a shock to everyone: to the test officials, who couldn’t believe a war orphan from Rooster Province could pass without cheating to Rin’s guardians, who believed they’d finally be able to marry her off and further their criminal enterprise and to Rin herself, who realized she was finally free of the servitude and despair that had made up her daily existence. An epic historical military fantasy, inspired by the bloody history of China’s twentieth century and filled with treachery and magic.
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