Title: The Poppy War (The Poppy War #1)
Author: R. F. Kuang
Genre: Adult Fantasy
Format: Hardcover & Audiobook
Length: 530 pages; 18 hours, 57 mins
Narrated By: Emily Woo Zeller
Publisher: Harper Voyager
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Setting: Nikara Empire

Thank you to Adri @ Perpetual Pages for this extensive list of content warnings. I would have missed some if they didn’t have it all written.

Graphic descriptions of blood, gore, violence, rape, bodily mutilation, dismemberment and dead bodies; mentions of massacres, infanticide, human trafficking, and human experimentation; instances of colorism/racism, misogyny, substance abuse/addiction, use of mind-altering drugs, verbal/physical abuse. Additionally, some instances of unchallenged ableism.

Chinese-coded, Japanese-coded, Taiwanese-coded, East-Asian-coded

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