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I will never stop laughing when people say “I just couldn’t get into the poppy war. I can’t root for the mc she’s not a good person.” It’s almost like that’s the point of the book!! It’s almost like it’s IN THE SUMMARY ON THE BACK.
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Anonymous 1w

made this meme when i read the series in december and it’s still relevant

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Anonymous 1w

My girl RF Kuang loves to write a main character with questionable morals! That’s her thing

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Anonymous 1w

read the entire first book and half of the second, I loved the non-Western worldbuilding. but oml, the character writing was so bad. I hope the author improves on that for her next series because I loved the world but couldn’t stick it out. it ticked me off too much how consistently flat the characters were.

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Anonymous 1w

I don’t know how, but I fully misread poppy war as poopy water and was so confused

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Anonymous 1w

its not even the fact that she easnt a good person that ticked me off - she was straight up stupid

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Anonymous 1w

I couldnt get into it, but honestly the mc was probably the best part. It was the writing/pacing that did it in for me

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Anonymous 1w

Omg I’m like 50 pages in rn and I’m so excited to keep reading

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Anonymous 1w

i stg i read poopy war and was insanely confused for a hot sec there

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 1w

I will say that I actually agree. The pacing was a bit off, regardless I usually see most people complain about Rin.

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 1w

like the MC was ehhh… ok ig… but everyone else just felt incredibly basic. like I read a book on character archetypes and write myself, so maybe I’m just jaded, but I wasn’t rooting for ANY of the characters bc they all felt like stereotypes. so now I’m stuck with the unrelatable, annoying MC and a bunch of cardboard cutouts.

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 1w

Exactly

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 1w

that’s also the point. she was an abused war orphan leading troops into WAR as a child it’s based on her immaturity and lack of experience and just throwing kids into hellish situations

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 1w

if you want a smarter child war criminal read American War by Omar El Akkad 👉👉 its really good

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