I'm really excited to read THE BURNING GOD now -- I think in some ways, THE DRAGON REPUBLIC fell  victim to second-book-syndrome. The end was fabulous, but I felt like a lot of the beginning/middle didn't really capture my attention very well. In part, I think Rin wasn't very active in that period of the book & that made her narrative just inherently a little more boring (but she's internally very much Going Through Stuff). But, omg. The ending was fantastic and I'm so excited to see where the story goes. 

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NOT THE CIKE. I'm so distressed. I can't believe all of them are essentially dead. Not Ramsa...sobbing.