Here we have the third book of The Poppy Trilogy and you have to say, did I see that coming! Rin is a somewhat fierce yet vulnerable heroine reluctantly following a path not of her choosing.The story continues at rattling fast pace as it travels towards its conclusion. We encounter twists and turns in the plot, actions of loyalty and sacrifice but also the inevitable betrayal. The main question at times is who is betraying who and why and are the reasons more complex than they initially appear to be.
A fantasy that combines a pseudo Chinese world with monsters and godlike creatures mired in epic destruction and war which may or may not culminate in a better world. Rin thought she was on the right path to redressing wrongs she feels created by her mistakes but allowing the phoenix she questions whether or not she will be able to control it.
Her so called allies cannot be trusted and it becomes clear the answer lies in her past and the common people. There is a seemingly continuous endless fight between the Hesparians with their modern ideas and weapons against the shamanic faith and the people who channel that power.
The author doesn’t shy away from the violence of war. Characters are well portrayed and constant throughout the narrative. Excellent interpretation of a complex world and fully formed and detailed. Looking forward to see what this author tackles next.

Okay but that ending? Incredible. MASTERFUL. I’m an absolute mess but I’m also so, so glad that I’ve had the opportunity to read this trilogy and get to know the incredible cast of characters. I think this is exactly the ending that the trilogy needed, and although it felt bittersweet at points, I don’t think anything else would have fit. You are all in for a treat this November.

As this is the final book in the trilogy, there is very little I can say without spoiling the previous two books. What I can say is that I felt it was a perfect ending and I couldn't imagine it finishing any other way. The character development was fantastic, the plot was well executed and the writing is a delight to read. Delight is probably the wrong word, given the depressing events that happen, and this will certain tug on your heartstrings. If you enjoyed the Poppy War then I definitely recommend finishing the trilogy!

Murder, mayhem, tragedy and loss; the final instalment of the Poppy War Trilogy is packed with enough story-line and events for a trilogy, let alone a finale as devastating as this. It is a treat of epic proportions with a lot to live up to with the first two in the trilogy - which it certainly fought hard to do, with enough heartache and despair to last. With a final scene that replays constantly in my mind (the only thing I can now think about when I consider this trilogy) and also a middle that left me feeling somewhat ... peeved? I think would be the right word, I have no idea how to effectively synthesise my mix of thoughts and feelings into a review that will do it justice. Preface: this is my mixed opinion and I'm going to try and explain without too many spoilers. If you want to go into the third book completely spoiler-free, don't read on.

Rin, and her final descent into villainy, starts off hidden in bushes, ready to pounce on the unsuspecting, to continue a story of slaughter. She's now part of the leadership in the Southern Coalition, and she's out for revenge ... out for blood still, in the shape and form of Nezha and the Hesparians.

There's cruelty in good measures here, a Rin type of cruelty that we've grown accustomed to throughout the rest of the series, carefully, deftly written by Kuang's masterful hand. A kind of well-spoken brutality that is so very raw. Rin uses her power to manipulate and outright kill her way into full command of the rebel forces, making a beeline for her beloved Tikany. One of the things I have enjoyed about the series proper is the morally questionable lead and it is still the same in this final book, which takes full-frontal control in the first part. It is there she meets the Vipress, now a withered husk of her former glory, and from here that we kick into - what I thought - was the main, final story thread. A quest to revive the Trifecta, and with it, the powerful and undeniable Dragon Emperor. At this, I was fully hooked. The fight scenes were fully imagined spectacles as always, the action: scripted, clear madness. The characters: desperate, gritty, relationships fraying.

From the middle of the book, where the story-line I loved is fully realised, then quickly binned off, destroyed, I was left reeling and not knowing what to make of the final part. Something that happens here just didn't and hasn't sat right with me ... Kuang's ability to keep us guessing, never knowing what is around the corner hit me hard in this book and, for once, it was not a surprise that I liked. To say I was devastated for this book at this point would be right.

The last half of the book left me moody, and I don't think I got over the disappointment that I spoke about above. A red herring in its truest form. As a huge fan of the series, or any series, you always have some way you think it will go or end up and this was the first time that I was very wrong, to the credit of Kuang; in this respect, it is a very well-executed series.

And, that ending. Despite what happened between, it hit me hard. It hurt. It was not what I expected, but was wholly satisfying in the most despairing way. All in all, it was a great series, but has a lot of twists and turns that could turn out unsavoury depending on the preferences of the reader. It is definitely a series that will stay in my mind for a long while.

So dam good. An amazing ending to the series, I couldn’t ask for more.

The ending was just WHAT! If you haven’t started this series go and pick it up and read it right this instant!

In all honesty, I was disappointed by The Burning God. I simply adored The Poppy War - I loved Rin (and hated her), her passion and guts and drive and her terrible decision making. I loved the way it bound together fantasy and history and mythology, the way I was never quite sure until the very end whether this book actually had magic or not, or if everyone was just super high. I was a big fan of the half-academy setting, half real world and the way it contrasted the two, bringing Altan from schoolboy to commander to someone I couldn't stand. I loved the idea of the Trifecta, steeped in lore and mystery and myth.

This book, however, didn't contain the same amount of passion for me. I felt like Kuang saw the vastness of the story she had to tell, how much she had left to wrap up and felt daunted. This trilogy has taken characters and friendships and groupings are used them and torn them up - Altan and his shamans, the people Rin knew at the academy, Master Jiang and Su Daji - and I both liked and hated the way I never really knew where these books were going next. I thought that The Burning God would wrap up the war and focus on the Trifecta.

At about two thirds the way through something incredibly anti-climatic happened and instead of feeling liked I'd been "got" by a bold and daring plot twist, I felt cheated. From that point on my interest definitely waned. I also couldn't care less about Nezha, who never really grew on me. What I did think The Burning God absolutely nailed was a fitting end: it should have been obvious to anyone where Rin's story was going, how she would end up, what shamanism and poppy had done to her and what she had done to herself. Kuang definitely got that right.

I love this trilogy and it has a special place in my heart for its unapologetic, horrifying, cruel, often immoral and self-driven protagonist. But I didn't feel all that satisfied when I closed the cover of the final book.

Quality Rating: Four Stars
Enjoyment Rating: Four Stars

The Burning God is a fitting conclusion to The Poppy War trilogy - and, even though it's painful, it always had to end this way. That being said, this still wasn't what I expected from the third book, but that's been true for each instalment and it's never been a bad thing.

The first thing I want to point out about this whole series is the execution of its inspiration drawn from Chinese history and mythology. I read and watch a fair amount of South-East Asian stories, but that in no way means I'm an expert on it - but you can go into these books with next to no knowledge of the context and be wholly transported there because Kuang does such a good job of immersing the reader in Nikara and explaining the context as the story moves along (obviously, a fantastical adaptation of its real-life inspiration, but the point stands). Moreover, the magic and politics and relationships are all so sophisticated in their own rights. They have depth, are believable, and we feel the stakes they each have in Rin's predicament - and still, all three of them have equal weight in the story. That's such a hard balance to strike, and Kaung seems to do it effortlessly.

I've said it in my previous reviews of this series, but The Poppy War deals with all the aspects of (realistic) warfare and its horror with such maturity. If you want to hear more of my thoughts on it, go look at my review of The Dragon Republic. The one thing I would say about The Burning God specifically was that it has a lot fewer glimpses of humour and hope that balanced out the horror in the previous books. It's totally fitting for the story being told, but I missed it a lot and it really highlighted how much effect those small moments had had on the previous books for me.

I, of course, have to once again praise Rin, especially at the end of the series. She is, without a doubt, what sets this series apart from other high fantasy war epics. We as the reader know, wholeheartedly, that Rin is making bad decisions a lot of the time. She is terrifying, totally messed up, and there are so things that I absolutely relate to personally (and get a little scared of how familiar the temptation feels) and I doubt I'm the only one. You don't get to see heroes being wrong in a lot of fantasy - questionable, sure. Almost every protagonist is a thief or an assassin or some indebted criminal. But straight-out wrong, and not even really realising it, is a rarity. And yet, we still root for Rin because she is so painfully human and that's exactly the point.

It's been great reading this series. Those of you that know my reading style know that I usually pace out trilogies over a couple years honestly, but I read The Poppy War last month and now the whole trilogy's over. It's been a breath of fresh air in a lot of ways, has really ignited my interest in South-East Asian history, and I can't wait to see what Kuang comes up with next.

I’m the kind of reader who will remember a series based on its ending. For me, it’s the kind of thing that can make or break a story.

The ending to The Burning God? It’s… well, phew. It’s memorable. It’s everything you’d expect from R.F. Kuang, and a few things you wouldn’t.

Much like the Dragon Republic, the finale to the Poppy War trilogy focuses almost entirely on the realities of war. Rin isn’t just a student any more. There is no barrier between her and the atrocities of the world. In fact, she broke down some of those barriers on purpose. Rin’s story here builds on the foreshadowing in earlier books. She becomes the person we should have expected her to become, had we been paying attention. All that anger, all that rage, all that self-hatred… it finds a target. Again, and again, and again, and again.

Of all the books in the trilogy, this one took the longest for me to find my immersion. The first 15% or so seemed oddly “separate” from the previous books. A bit like a new season of a TV show that had answered most of its big questions in the previous season’s finale. It felt like we were retreading old ground until the book found its footing.

There was also something about the pacing that didn’t quite sync with me. Don’t get me wrong, this book is almost non-stop action from beginning to end. But some parts in the first third seemed to drag, some plot-arc conclusions passed by too quickly, and quite often I found myself wishing there was more room to breathe. This is very likely a YMMV situation, but it did have an impact on my enjoyment.

Perhaps even more so than the previous two books, The Burning God leans heavily into its grimdark aspects. This book has every content warning it is possible to have. But this dark atmosphere, with all the paranoia and fear and exhaustion that comes with it, allows for some interesting exploration of Rin’s character and her relationships. We’ve seen Rin pushed hard before, but this time around it is relentless. She is pushed to her limit and held there until she is almost suffocated by the weight of her past and the stress of her present.

Rin’s first instinct, of course, is to react to this in the way that Rin usually reacts to things. But the fascinating question posed by this novel is: what happens when she can’t?

I said before that I’m the kind of reader who will remember a series based on its ending. And this ending will definitely stick with me for a long while. All the worldbuilding lore, the character work, the plot threads about history and colonialism, they all come together in a satisfying cascade of maybe-metaphorical explosions.

Taken individually, I don’t think this was my favourite book of the Poppy War trilogy. That honour would go to the Dragon Republic. But the Burning God is still an engaging, challenging read, and a fitting conclusion to one of the most exciting trilogies of the past few years.

Buy tissues.

Absolutely stunning end to this excellent series. Very political with lots of dark humour. I love this whole series.

A strong end to an incredible series. Felt the plot overshadowed the characters and their interactions, which is what initially made me fall in love with the series and found the ending quite rushed and seemingly left of field but overall enjoyed the book.

I love this author and I am still blown away by her writing as I was when I first read the poppy war. She’s the type of writer who makes you think, feel and hurt for months after you even finish her book. I can’t wait to read more from her in the future :)

Thank you to Harper Voyager, R.F. Kuang and Netgalley for an ARC of the book.

*This review will contain no spoilers for The Burning God*

When I was introduced to _The Poppy War_ trilogy back in April, I devoured the first two books in a single night. Knowing what a great storyteller RF Kuang is, I had such high expectations for the book. I haven't encountered a lot of Asian-oriented fantasy novels, so this was such a find. I honestly wondered how on earth she could outdo herself.

Well, colour me surprised!! The book was a whirlwind of devastation, and it absolutely thrilled me. Without spoiling much, I can say that it’s darker and grittier than the last two novels, which is saying something! Kuang has dealt with the intricacies of military strategy in the past, but with this novel, she also more deeply explores the psychological element of warfare. We delve a lot into Rin’s inner psyche and get to explore her trauma, guilt and paranoia as she completes her journey.

Rin’s character as a whole became even more fascinating, and I couldn’t believe this was the same person I’d followed into Sinegard in the very first book. She’s burning with so much ambition, and her actions are filled with anger and spurned on by a lust for power and revenge. Seeing how this affected her relationship with the much more morally upright KItay was absolutely amazing.

I was honestly afraid of reaching the ending; I must warn you- please pack some tissues!! Part of me anticipated it, and I was still left devastated all the same.

Regardless of my heartbreak, Kuang so deftly explores the ways in which history is doomed to repeat itself. Despite this, she still places an emphasis on the power of hope, however tenuous, and its ability to overcome the desolation of war.

_“For it was wonderful to remember that this land could still be so breathtakingly beautiful, that there was more sewn into the heart of the Twelve Provinces than blood and steel and dirt. That centuries of warfare later, this country was still a canvas for the gods; that their celestial essence still seeped through the cracks between worlds.”_

Consider me destroyed. R.F. Kuang has done it again. The Burning God is the final instalment in The Poppy War Trilogy, a series richly inspired by modern Chinese history – a subject which I wasn’t really familiar with before reading this series. The trilogy centres on Fang Runin, known throughout the books as Rin. The series takes her from adopted girl mistreated by her family, to student at the prestigious Sinegard Military Academy, to soldier, to shaman, to all-powerful General.

The Burning God begins with Rin returning south to Rooster Province. In book one she saved her nation from foreign invaders, in book two she battled Empress Su Daji, Trifecta survivor and known as the Vipress. She is betrayed by her allies in the Dragon Province, which sends her home to Tikany, the small village where her story began.

This is a stunning finale with vivid military descriptions mixed with a fantasy world that is only expanded upon. Rin is faced with the challenge of her school nemesis – turned ally – turned betrayer Nezha, who has allied with a foreign colonising nation, Hesperia. Hesperia wishes to eliminate shamanism as it goes against all of their religious beliefs, but Rin knows her Gods are real and she is not afraid to prove it.

Amongst the detail and gripping plot lies a cast of characters with so much depth it’s astonishing. This is not a book of good versus evil – every character has multiple sides to them which only facilitates the twists in the plot. Rin is as ambitious and angry as usual, but really grows into her new power (not always in the best way). Kitay, now bound to her, balances her out, and becomes an even better strategist. Nezha, having been forced by Rin to acknowledge his shamanism, is now an even greater threat than ever before. Venka is as mysterious as always, and I couldn’t help but like her.

This book really explores what war can do to a country and its people, whether it is civil or through invasion. The ending made me cry, but the story definitely has a small number of humorous moments along the way. I cared so much for Rin, despite her flaws and horrific decisions. Even though it was always clear that she would not have a happy ending, I still hoped otherwise.

Thank you, R.F. Kuang for a better ending to this trilogy than I could have hoped for. Thanks to NetGalley and Harper Collins UK for the eARC, it made my week.

A stellar and breathtaking conclusion to Kuang's trilogy, The Burning God balances action and excitment with introspective and moving scenes. The plot progresses in a way that feels true to the characters' personalities and experiences, and comes to a close leaving the reader stunned. With The Burning God, The Poppy War trilogy becomes an outstanding adult fantasy series.

This. Book. I've laughed, cried and screamed while reading it.
Honestly, this was one of my most anticipated books of the year. I almost cried with excitement when I saw my request for an arc had been approved, and I immediately began to binge-read it over the space of two days. I honestly couldn't put it down, from the moment I started reading it.
R. F. Kuang's final installment had everything I wanted in it. There was military tactics galore, and payoff to trilogy long character arcs. Were there flaws? Of course there were. I still can't decide how I feel about the ending, but what I do know is that it was satisfying enough that it didn't taint my view of the rest of the book.
Rin is, and always will be, one of my favourite characters of all time; she's my murder child and I think Kuang did a brilliant job with her and the drastic changes she undorgoes throughout. My favourite part of the book (and the trilogy in general) was the relationship between Rin and Kitay, and that was much more present in this book than any of the others.
I will say there there definitely could have been more character driven moments, and there was a couple of things that I still haven't really wrapped my head around, but overall I honestly loved this book, and it's one of my favourite books of the year.

The Burning God is the final instalment in the Poppy War series, which has followed Rin from student warrior, to mythical all-consuming fire God and beyond. In that time we’ve seen her face a number of difficult decisions, witness horrors unlike anything we could imagine, and break friendships that have destroyed her trust. This follows straight on from the devastating aftermath of The Dragon Republic, and leads onto a final epic showdown for Rin to reclaim her country.

When I look back on the Rin from the Poppy war, the creature she is now feels completely foreign. This Rin, although not burning with rage, burns with a lust for power. It’s only Kitay – her physical and mythical anchor who often stops her from going beyond and into the destructive. This Rin is consumed with a need to control and destroy, as though she has become the manifestation of her God in her quest to free her country and therefore has sacrificed her own humanity. She weighs up decisions that other individuals would be devastated by without thinking, and shows little compassion for her so called enemies. As always, I love her relationship with Kitay. He is often the only person who will stand up to Rin and question her decisions. He is the moral backbone of the campaign, the only one left who is not obsessed with control. He’s seen as much horror as Rin, has suffered as much as her, yet he doesn’t have this desire to obliterate. He still knows how to love, and is a pacifist at heart. Nezha and Rin share a much more complex history and relationship, and in some ways the three of them mirror the history of the original Trifecta. With Nezha’s betrayal, Rin has become even more distrusting of people, and she’s become unstable. She is obsessed with Nezha and revenge, but I think she also still loves him deeply – and this causes an interesting dynamic between the pair. One which comes to an all mighty crescendo of possession and domination.

As usual, the novel also brings up some interesting political and social commentary that is reflected in our own history. The Hesperians are very clearly this world’s interpretation of Europeans. A dominant power that seeks to obliterate Rin and any other shamen who may exist as they threaten their own beliefs in a God known as the ‘Architect’. As in previous novels, we see them exerting their dominance over the continent – forcing Rin to make alliances she never would have previously made. There is also a lot of guerrilla and siege warfare throughout the novel, which takes the story in a very different direction from the previous two novels as Rin is forced to consider tactics she was never taught at Sinegard. For the first time she’s really starting to examine her own capacity as a leader, and accept (sometimes, not all the time) help from those that are more experienced in the type of war she now finds herself in. I always enjoy the various enfolding of war plans and ideas – which I know isn’t for everyone.

I also really enjoyed that the Burning God lets us see more of Rin’s country. We go on some epic journeys throughout this, over and below mountains, throughout dangerous terrains and into more mythical places. We see just how vast Rin’s homeland is, and what an epic task she really has in front of her if she plans to unite it again. It feels very desolate, famine is rife and homes have been completely destroyed due to years of war, causing migrant refugees. It’s not a happy country and civil unrest is extremely high. We get to see all the fallout of war in all it’s horrific details.

This wasn’t a perfect conclusion for me. I do still feel that Rin has an obsession with Altan that I just can’t connect with. The guy hasn’t been around since the end of The Poppy War,a nd by this point I’ve lost all interest in him. His relationship with Rin feels pointless – although it does serves to show how much hatred Rin has for herself. I also, as always, wanted more from the Pantheon and the Gods. They’re a group of pure chaos, and every scene involving shamanism and magic is pure joy was a read about, as I find the magic system so unique and compelling. The ending for some may also feel like a bit of a let-down, although I don’t think what transpires is completely unexpected. There are no happy endings here – only inevitability.

All said, this was a wonderful conclusion to a fantasy series I have found incredibly thought provoking, and with some of the strongest and most complex characters I have ever seen and a magical system that feels so real, yet also so distinctly alien.

I don’t even know where to begin. Thank you to Netgalley, HarperCollins and R.F. Kuang for giving me this book in exchange for an honest review. I applied thinking that it was a pipedream and that no one would actually let me review the finale in this amazing series, then the book came through and I had to immediately pre order the paperback of the second book in the trilogy which I had been waiting for. I’ve devoured both in a matter of days.

If you’ve read The Poppy War trilogy you’ll know that R.F. Kuang is a master when it comes to depicting the brutality and horrendous things that can occur in a war, she does not shy away from it. Rather, she invites it in and graphically depicts all the things that make war so unheroic, something that other fantasy writers often fail to do. It is a work of art.

The Burning God comes right after Rin has escaped the city of Arlong at the end of The Dragon Republic, and in true fashion is jam packed full of Shamanism, gripping war scenes and absolutely heartbreaking moments. I will admit that I cried, as R.F. Kuang warned in the dedication. Her writing, as in the previous books is unparalleled, she really hooks you in and paints the picture of the scenery and the feelings that Rin is feeling. Along with shocking twists and betrayals, you’re never quite sure on who exactly you can trust.

As someone who is thoroughly interested in mythology I loved this trilogy, Kuang really builds her world up, and lends beautifully from Chinese mythology, which I will be exploring more now because of this trilogy. The Shamanism element is done so perfectly and really makes you invested in the characters and their mental states. I think that Rim’s character is done really well, we meet her as a very young girl and it really shows with her immaturity, and then throughout the series as her character experiences certain things you understand her mental state and her motivations better and better.

Kuang incorporates many topics into her writing and one that shines through in this book is racism. Rin experiences racism from the start of The Poppy War when she goes to Sinegard to find that she is looked down upon because of her darker skin, right through to the attitudes of the Hesperian attitudes towards the Nikara people. The Hesperians seem to be based upon Western colonisers, and are depicted with graphic accuracy, from the experiments to the ‘scientific’ explanations of why the Nikara are ‘less’ than them. This is done incredibly well, however, Kuang also balances this with Rin’s own struggle in which she sees everyone as her enemy. Throughout the series, you see Rin have moments of clarity that soldiers for the Mugnese and Hesperians are just like the Nikara, and that in cases the Nikara can be just as bad as the people that have overtaken them, and her struggle with that as it makes things less black and white.

Throughout the whole series I do not think I could pick out a favourite character, because they all shine in different ways and I love them for different reasons, and some of them I miss. I think the characters are incredibly well written, for their flaws and complexity, Kuang knows how to write characters that are impacted by great tragedy.

The ending was incredible, and in all honesty I thought that it was the perfect end to the trilogy (although I do really want it to continue because I’m already imagining how it could). I am truly going to miss this series which has already become one of my favourites, and cannot wait to see what Kuang comes up with next. Thank you again.

As ever it is unbearably hard to talk about the final book in a trilogy in isolation so I'm going to assume that all of you reading this have already read the first two books in this series. If you haven't then I highly suggest that you do so this is a wonderful series that pretty much every fantasy reader ought to pick up!

Whenever I'm reading a series and a new book comes out the first thing I want to know is : do I need to re-read everything? So I'll start there. As you all know I am a person who quite frequently reads things out of order - that's just my way. But in this case I highly recommend that you go right back to the beginning and read all three in one go (or at least very close together). There's something about a trilogy with this kind of scope that makes it 500% better if you experience the full character arc. While you won't be completely lost if you jump in without re-reading (the book does a good job of reacclimating you), it will give you a better and more impactful reading experience if you do go back to the beginning - or so I found.

One tip I will give to people like me who struggle with remembering names of characters - do all three in the same format (e.g. audiobook. physical etc.) as that will mean you keep the right names/sounds in your head.

Of all three books I would probably say The Dragon Republic remains my favourite. I think The Poppy War has the most...understandable plot, The Dragon Republic has the most impactful character development and then The Burning God kind of...ties off what happened in the previous books. I will say it is possible I am a little biased because I didn't get the ending I wanted (which is totally fine there are a million and one ways to end a series I just like things to go a certain way and they didn't). This book is still super strong and has all of the strategy and character and clever plot and setting that the previous books have it just didn't quite hit so hard for me - though of course that could change in a re-read. 

I think in this book I felt less connected to Rin than I have in other books - again that's probably a personal thing, we all relate to characters in different ways - but where in earlier books I felt as though Rin was making disaster choices for understandable reasons things felt a bit more chaotic at times - particularly in the first sections of this book. Later on things got much more...understandable?

I think that's what it boils down to - this book took longer to get into than the other books and that definitely had an impact on my enjoyment. But what I take from that is that this is not a series to be read once and then forgotten - this is one to re-read constantly, each time taking something different away - and that's kind of one of my favourite things a series can be!

This series as a whole is five stars for me, seeing the arc these characters go through was always going to be amazing and I'm excited to re-read in the future. 

My rating: 4/5 stars

I received a free digital advanced review copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley - all opinions are my own.

The Burning God is out November 17th!

Thank you to the publisher Harper Voyager for providing me with an early copy of this book to review.

This finale to The Poppy War series was everything I hoped it would be and more.

I read both The Poppy War and The Dragon Republic this year and completely fell in love with everything to do with this world; the characters, the world building, the plot, the writing. R.F. Kuang has become one of my all time favourite authors and I cannot wait to see what she comes out with in the future.

The Burning God lived up to every expectation I had after finishing The Dragon Republic earlier this year and even exceeded them. I had to take my time reading this book as I just didn't want it to be over and I wanted to take in everything and properly digest what was happening.

By the end of this book I was an emotional wreck and sobbing hysterically. I felt like I got to truly know our main characters and became extremely attached to them. It was so bittersweet to reach the end of this book because while I wanted to see how it ended and what happened, I was so sad to let this world and characters go.

R.F. Kuang did a fantastically stunning job with this series with each book being just as good as the last. It's obvious how much work and research she put into this series and it does not go unappreciated.

Overall, The Burning God is a perfect conclusion for this series and if you think you know how it's going to end, you might want to think again.

A final book's summary so enticing, it made me go read the first two books, just so I could get to it. Wonderfully done from R.F. Kuang.