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I wasn't quite as engaged with this final volume of the trilogy, but I think it's a successful wrap-up, as much as you could expect with a story that reads like The Hunger Games (with fifty percent more love interests, although only two alive at any one time), and has obvious parallels to Chinese history and colonialism (the story was inspired by Mao's life which had me worried but it either doesn't go too far that way or does so very cleverly), and lots of violence (makes The Hunger Games look like a Disney flick). There is a nice short story at the end which is more of an epilogue that fills in the blanks and reframes the last fifteen hundred pages you just read and finished with what the hell just happened. Honestly, it didn't end the way I expected, but I don't know what I expected.

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Último livro da trilogia A Guerra da Papoula. Essa série me prendeu tanto que não consegui não ler um atrás do outro. Foram 49 dias para completar a saga (além de outras leituras feitas no meio de tudo isso) e agora tô triste que não tem mais.

This finale fell flat for me. It went in all the wrong directions and spent far too much time on tedious and insipid internal dialog. Pov character never grows or seems to learn from their mistakes.

Rin got a little YA-romancey towards her nemesis in this book, but nothing got too crazy. Rin fulfilled a tragic destiny and the ending was satisfying. I liked the the cycle of mythic leaders tangled with Speerlies and the way Rin discovered the pattern with the Red Emporer, the Trifecta, and finally in her own story--good world building.

The setting and history was a fantastic take on the Sino-Japanese war. The author introduced a way that China might see itself differently than Europe does and how that could shape a fantasy series.

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