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I am almost stunned to the point that words fail me to describe how great this book and this series is.

The Poppy Wars started this epic trilogy with sturdy foundations and the magnificence that belongs with the first act of a magnus opus. After the first half, it is difficult to let the book down.

But The Dragon Republic... Somehow - no, brilliantly-how - it gets better. It keeps getting better and better. I devoured this book as if tomorrow would never come.
I think I would have to write an essay on everything that I would like to praise on this book, but for this review, I'll settle on a few things:

1. If you are not reading/ haven't read The Poppy Wars trilogy, you are probably missing out on one of the greatest fantasy creations of all time. And I am dead serious on this one.

2. It is perfect if you think this world is hopeless. It is perfect if you don't think the world is hopeless. We need people like you, but looking into situations that look absolutely hopeless can be a good exercise.

3. The parallels and references to the real history of China are brilliant and absolutely f*cking gut wrenching. This book will let you observe what it is like to be belittled and de-humanised by the world, through symmetries and allusions. And they are so perfect.

4. I can't express enough how thankful I am to the author for creating this. I feel truly truly blessed.

There: my brain is drifting while processing all this experience that were the last few days of reading this book. The lack of eloquence is frustrating, but I know what I feel and I know how glad I am that I have read this, and this book will become another treasure in my mind. Not many things make sense these days; books this good make a difference.

Now, onto "The Burning God"!!!!!

The question about giving out your opinion about The Catcher In The Rye is that you feel like everything that you have to say has already been said by everyone else.
But the truth is that human experience (like opinions) are most of the times different inspite of similar. And that's what I believe is the biggest trumph of this book.
I must confess: I was hatting it in the first pages. It was looking like a pointless and superficial narration. I won't say it isn't. But I continued and started to believe there was more to it. Holden's complex personality reflecting the fight he was enduring with his growth and the contradictions he was becoming aware of generated not only some empathy with me as some feeling of needing to observe him. Because the representation of this human experience was quite well done in a perspetive of one person only and what she thinks. It kept me almost wanting to talk to Holden and ask him a few questions. Or not... Because he was dealing with the world and everyone that passed by this would understand. Its not that I am moved. I am delighted with the painting of a personality through his eyes. And I am other eyes standing outside and judjing or being benevolent. I almost passively watch this story.
I think that what made me feel 'sort of depressed' about it in the end was the ending itself. I don't know what to feel abou it. Was it to logical, inevitable, bad, ok, realist, far-fetched,...? I can't decide. But it didn't felt right.