2021/112: The Poppy War -- R F Kuang

2021/112: The Poppy War -- R F Kuang

"...You’ve brought down forces you don’t understand into your pathetic little material world, and your world would be infinitely more interesting if someone smashed it up for a bit.” [p. 464]

Rin is a war orphan, effectively a slave to her foster family: to avoid an arranged marriage and escape a life of poverty and oppression, she studies for the Empire's Keju test, which promises admission to the academies -- and she passes with flying colours.( Read more... )