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As her power and influence grows, though, will she be strong enough to resist the Phoenix’s intoxicating voice urging her to burn the world and everything in it? When a brutal war lands on their doorstep. The series follows an orphan named Rin, who earns her place in an elite military academy. 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. The Burning God, the third book in Kuang's Poppy War series, will be available this November, which means you have plenty of time to read the first two books in the series, The Poppy War, and The Dragon Republic. Returning to her roots, Rin meets difficult challenges-and unexpected opportunities. Kuang’s acclaimed, award-winning epic fantasy that combines the history of twentieth-century China with a gripping world of gods and monsters, to devastating, enthralling effect.Īfter 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. 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.The exciting end to The Poppy War trilogy, R. After the betrayal, Rin realizes who she should have been fighting for all along: the South. Returning to her roots, Rin meets difficult challenges-and unexpected opportunities. The Burning God picks up exactly where The Dragon Republic left off with Rin contemplating the fate of Nikan while Nezha allies with Vaisra and the Hesperians on governing Nikan.

The exciting end to The Poppy War trilogy, R.
