Series
The Poppy War
R. F. Kuang · 3 novels · 1 short story · 2018–2021
The Poppy War follows Rin, a war orphan who tests into an elite military academy and discovers a talent for shamanic power tied to a pantheon of vengeful gods. R. F. Kuang's trilogy reworks the Second Sino-Japanese War and its atrocities into an epic fantasy that grows darker and more morally compromised as it goes. It's told across The Poppy War, The Dragon Republic, and The Burning God.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- Omnibus editions(1 edition)
Map
The Poppy War at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 2010s2
- 2020s2
Shape
3 novels · 1 short story
1 author
reads like:grimdarkwarsecondary worldtimeless or unspecifieddarkadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book3 of 4 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- The Poppy Wardarkest · brightest · calmest · most intense