A review by readingthroughthelists
The Burning God by R.F. Kuang

Did not finish book. Stopped at 25%.
I suffered my way through The Dragon Republic, but I can’t suffer through this. It’s so long and without the presence of Nezha (my favorite character) what’s even the point? 

It doesn’t help that the first quarter of The Burning God is terribly repetitive. Rin and her ragtag army will go to an occupied town or village full of Mughanese soldiers. Rin swears at some people and then waffles for a bit over the humanity of her enemy before deciding that the Mughanese do indeed deserve to be roasted into crispy bits, civilian casualties be damned. Then some character tells Rin that actually civilians shouldn’t be roasted into crispy bits, to which Rin says “damn, ur so right” and decides she does care about human life for a few pages. 

Rinse and repeat. 

Of course sometimes Rin gets a lucky break because sometimes the civilians in question decide “hey actually we do want to immolate ourselves for the cause!” and they just…walk into the fire. Moral quandary solved, I guess. That was easy. 
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