A brilliantly imaginative talent makes her exciting debut with this epic historical military fantasy, inspired …
I kind of liked this (as in I would have given it 3 or 4 stars), then I read the bad reviews on goodreads and... (rest of review in reply because I'm going to need a spoiler warning)
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I should have noticed that maybe it's a bad idea to put an actual genocide (as in, one that has actually happened in history) inside a fantasy novel, for no actual reason. I mean, this book did not try to do any work with the historic material. It's just a setting for the plot. There are more problematic things which I didn't notice at all, I will just link the reviews.
www.goodreads.com/review/show/2502373487 www.goodreads.com/review/show/3734030651
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@unsuspicious I feel like I was mugged. Tricked into thinking I was reading a harmless fantasy trope, then boom, having the Rape of Nanking shoved in my face. Apart from wider awareness of the horrors of that war, I'm not really sure what literary purpose it served.
