The Burning God (The Poppy War, #3)

by R.F. Kuang

“Elites with entrenched interests will always hate you,” Daji said. “That’s inevitable. But the elites don’t matter, the masses do.

The point of revenge wasn’t to heal. The point was that the exhilaration, however temporary, drowned out the hurt.

There are never any new stories, just old ones told again and again as this universe moves through its cycles of civilization and crumbles into despair. We are on the brink of an age of chaos again, and