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THE WHOLE TRIFECTA ARC JUST TO KILL THEM OFF?! JUST LIKE THAT?! When the bombs dropped I was like 'pah they surely survived that'. I WAS CERTAIN THEY WOULD RETURN, ONLY AFTER A 100 PAGES OR SO IT BECAME APPARENT THAT THERE COULDNT POSSIBLY BE SPACE FOR THEIR STORY ON SO LITTLE PAGES LEFT. And we never got to know what exactly Rigas powers were, bro was dead, resurrected and then dead again all in the span of 10 Minuten lmao.

I guess that just wasn't the focus of the Story but I can't help but wish for more.
Kuang opened up such a large World but in the end it still felt kinda unexplored.
Rins inner workings and morals were once again sooo interesting.

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Her black and white thinking, the mental acrobatics girly did to justify her actions, the deep rooted racism at every corner and so onnnn.
Especially during the last pages it became apparent how far gone Rin was. The sheer Paranoia and the blindness for everything but War, Power another win and another one and another one.
I wanted to be mad at her as she killed Venka (THIS WAS SO FOUL) and then almost Kitay (I WILL FOREVER LOVE YOU KITAY) but I was just sad for her. Truly tragic.
AND THE ENDING.
Sounds strange but i'm so glad that Rin died. It was a good decision and it finally gave her rest. I hate when Authors can't say goodbye to their characters and just drag them along.

(And a random thought I had: It's so funny that all the male Yins look virtually the same. Kuang emphasized their physical similarities

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(Riga, Vaisra, Nezha)

SO OFTEN, in the end I just pictured them as clones at different ages lmao.)

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adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Review of The Burning God

By: RF Kuang

Rin and Nezha are now enemies and Kitay is her anchor, who keeps her from losing her humanity. But it isn’t easy when your enemy has his own water God and not all your allies trust you nor do you trust your own capabilities.

This is an amazing end for fantastic trilogy. The confrontation between Rin and Nezha is complicated mess that shows how things aren’t so black and white. The whole trilogy has explored this with this war showing there’s no villains, just people who think they are in the right. You can understand Rin and Nezha’s rationalizations and you actually feel sorry for him, despite seeing things through Rin. We also see the consequences of Rin and Nezha’s Civil war and how it effects the people. Rin rationalizes that this war and if they side with the Republic they deserve to be punished. At the same time Rin wants and misses Nezha, and the pair can’t seem to kill each other even though the want to. Her relationship to Kitay gets shaken up as Rin gets closer to her fight with Nezha. He is a character that keeps Rin human and prevents her from relying on her fire power first. They are closer, because they’re anchored, but often clash on how to handle the war. It tears their relationship apart. I love how we learn about the Trifecta and its history. We get to see them in action as we see the full scope of their powers. There were a lot of great battle scenes between individual fights that involve God power.

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