The Burning God

CAWPILE SCORE
C-8
A-9
W-9
P-8
I-6
L-7
E-6
TOTAL-7.57/10

A Story about War and its many consequences
CAWPILECharacters.Rin, what to say about Rin, makes some of the worst decisions because she is so focused on being “free” and that she has to keep raging against everyone and everything. I was glad that she was able to stop herself from blowing up the Hesperians in the end, because that would have been the end of the world for sure. Whiplash from dealing with Rin's changing relationship to everyone all the timeNezha, what a change in this book from the last one. Not sure how I feel about his basically complete control over his ability with no Anchor and basically 0 time for training especially with all the experiments going on. He always felt like he vacillated between Nikara and Hesperian. Kitay, still as smart as ever, but I'm glad he finally showed a backbone and stopped Rin at least once. Definitely reads as an autistic person to me, and I loved that. Trifecta: wow, just seeing Jiang come up from his seal and regaining his power. How scared everyone is of Riga. How powerful Riga is, but then the betrayal from Rin using the Hesperians Bombs to kill them all. Felt like a huge waste to me. Instead of using him to push them away, then rebelling or something. Hesperians: diligent and scientific as always. If only they didn't have 0 morals and actually believed people were people and weren't racists. Then I could root for them more, with their more scientific approach and advanced Tech. the end of Inspector Petra was very fitting.AtmosphereWar is War and this book definitely makes you feel the realities of war. Death being a factor but a smaller factor, famine, Lack of supplies, travel, all these things made the atmosphere feel real almost feeling the despair and likewise highs.WritingNothing to criticize in her writing, again with the themes of Betrayal but this time at least Rin gets 1 betrayal in or maybe 2 if you count betraying herself to stay true to herself.PlotThe Plot for me was all over the place. Go here try this, it fails or I mess it up, go here do this fail again, try this betray that. Everything was just crazier than the last. Still believable for the most part.InvestmentMedium investment for me to see the ending for Rin and what would actually happen to the world.LogicA couple of times it felt like Rin forgot her anchor bond with Kitay unless it was to pass a message. Or that if he dies she dies.EnjoymentUp and down for the enjoyment for me.MiscThere is no way the Nikaran people are ever going to recover from this invasion then civil war, then invasion and civil war at the same time. Unless the Hesperians have insane amounts of food, but realistically I think they should all die.
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