The poppy war

Just started the first book, and seems kinda shit. Or maybe is just the grimdark setting?

Is it worth continuing or is it just over hyped?

Edit: I decided against my better judgement to finish the book, it indeed was shit.

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R.F. Kuang has great ideas for books, but the execution is just never there in the final product. The Poppy War was a rare DNF for me.

I liked the first book. The second was a trial, I gave up on the third.

And I like everything else she has written more than the first book of the Poppy War.

Babel and Katabasis are both also dark academia books and I love them both.

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hakase@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 219d (2 replies)

I can't speak to the Poppy War but her Babel was the most disappointed I've ever been by a book.

It's crazy because Babel could have been great. But instead we got a half-assed decolonial Harry Potter knock-off.

Wow, I loved it. Her stuff is really polarizing.