Jesse’s Reviews > The Dragon Republic > Status Update

Oh god there’s still like nearly 100 pages left, that’s a lot of time for something horrible to happen

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I mean I’m not proud of calling it, idk how much of modern fantasy - YA or otherwise - is a long hot potato from catastrophe to catastrophe.

Like, idk whether this boyang assault is gonna go poorly and set the stage for the third book, but it’s gonna go badly

Well this particular plot twist was I guess hinted at in the book’s opening vignette. The nonstop war crimes tour examines the horrors of and motivation for war from all sorts of different perspectives.

This novel is brutal

okay maybe I had something in the back of my mind with Chaghan but I wasn’t expecting an explosively bi love triangle. actually, chaghan not being able to see the lingering spirit strongly suggests that, well, whatever happened, Altan isn’t dead! I’m amazed that we’ve gone 200 pages and no one has talked about the Cike dude that they broke out at the end of the first book.