I have a very weird relationship with Kitay. No Stone Left Unturned: who’s your favourite fictional genius? You know what? Brb I’m gonna go draft up that strongly worded letter to her.

He’s the only man in the series who deserves genuine joy and still, RFK won’t give him a minute to breath. But he’s so torn, constantly questioning himself and his sanity, what he knows and who he trusts, and all anyone ever does is hurt him and take advantage of his kindness. He’s a cinnamon roll, and I would give him anything he asked for. All he wants is to give and give and give, to protect the people he loves and to keep them alive. He’s so goddamn smart, and he’s got so much love in him to share. (Yeah I know I said Laila stole my heart, no I will not clarify the technicalities of this, shhhhh.) I love him with everything in me. Stole my heart before I even knew what was happening.Īnd Kitay? Let me be clear. I loved all of the main characters a lot, especially Hypnos and Zofia, but Laila just. I know that The Gilded Wolves doesn’t necessarily have the chosen one trope, but I just wanted to spend more time with Laila when I was reading the book. Whatever it might be for you personally, it’s hard not to admit that she’s an incredibly complex, sometimes frustratingly so, and we love her so much for it. Or maybe it’s her suspicion of everyone she comes in contact with, just as we’re untrusting of anyone she comes in contact with, that makes us relate so much. Still, I think there’s something about her–perhaps her drive for something else, something better, that makes a lot of us in the fandom adore her so much. I understand why people would struggle to love her, especially through the first two books.

There’s a lot to love and hate about Rin. No one expected this girl from a small town and from an unknown family to be destruction incarnate, driven by her need to prove herself, to herself and to others, and by the spite that bloomed into formidable anger, burning bright like an ember breathed upon by a vengeful god. And here, at the end of The Dragon Republic, we hold hands with a fatally intelligent woman, hardened by scars to her soul and the lessons the universe unkindly bestowed upon her in her twenty years.

We met her in a little shop in Tikany, just balancing the books and handing off opium as the Fang family directed her to. How can I not love her?įrom where she begins to where this story comes to, at least in The Dragon Republic, is a marvel to behold. I often say this so excuse my sounding like a broken record, but she was never the Chosen One and she fought tooth and nail to make herself the Chosen One. I think it’s safe to say that Fang Runin, or Rin, is my favourite Anti-Heroine.

The poppy war book