The flowers are pentas, not poppies, but oh well. The Poppy War, R. F. Kuang’s debut fantasy novel, follows Fang Runin (known as Rin) living in the country of Nikan. She grows up poor, in a foster family that treats her poorly. However, she decides to take a near-impossible exam in an attempt to get …
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Book Review | A Conjuring of Light
Signs of a fantastic series: When you finish, you sit in a daze, unable to focus on anything else but what you just read for at least half an hour.You recommend it to anyone remotely interested in that genre (or, sometimes, not even then. You might recommend it to complete strangers on the street. I …
Book Review | A Gathering of Shadows
Me finishing A Gathering of Shadows by V. E. Schwab: A One Act Play *Enter ME, moving to sit in a chair, reading the book*Silence, save for the soft sound of the final page turning over to reveal nothing more than an Acknowledgments pageME: ...ME: *shrieks and dives across the room for the third book, …
Book Review | The Return of the King
Aaaand I'm back with the final installment in my ramblings about The Lord of the Rings! Let's do this. So The Return of the King picks up—as you might imagine—where The Two Towers left off. Aragorn, Gandalf, Legolas, Gimli Merry, Pippin, and their allies from Rohan head for Gondor, where trouble brews on the horizon. …
Book Review | The Two Towers (SPOILERS)
I'm back with more Middle-Earth fangirling! Let's do this. (Again, as with my first LOTR review, this is also a review of the audio by Rob Inglis.) Also, there are... I guess, spoilers... in this review, both for this and also for the first book, The Fellowship of the Ring. If you somehow haven't read …
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