This is by far the longest of the trilogy, and, honestly, by far the most bleak. Meanwhile, her conflicted feelings about Nezha and her now missing hand from injuries in TDR have her off-balance. Rin has continued to be her oh-so-charming self and thus made absolutely no friends whatsoever. So, onto this edition of “Rin and Friends Commit War Crimes”, it picks up a few months after the end of TDR, where Rin is in an uneasy alliance with the Southern Warlords against the new alliance between Yin Vaisra and the foreign forces he has traded access to the country and its shamans in exchange for military support. I will say that it wasn’t so much a problem between The Dragon Republic and The Burning God as it was between The Poppy War and The Dragon Republic, and I think that’s because TPW covered such a huge amount of time, while TDR was a much more compact period. This meant that I didn’t necessarily remember immediately what had happened in the last one. With everything that’s gone on, and with the length of the previous books, however, I hadn’t found time to re-read the first two iterations between each release. It’s been a while since I’ve stumbled across a series as it was publishing where I had to literally wait a year between each book. I’ve been extremely excited about this book basically since finishing the last one. Warning: this post will probably contain spoilers for The Burning God, as well as previous books in the series.

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.Īs her power and influence grows, will she be strong enough to resist the Phoenix’s voice, urging her to burn the world and everything in it? Returning to her roots, Rin meets difficult challenges – and unexpected opportunities. See Also: The Poppy War, The Dragon RepublicĪfter 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.

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