Does A Fictional Character Have To Be Morally Good?

A look at ‘The Burning God’ and the destructive mind of a main character

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The Burning God by R F Kuang

I just finished reading the final, devastating conclusion to The Poppy War series by R.F. Kuang. The Burning God stole my sleep and any other kind of hour because the protagonist found herself in one bad decision after another, and the way she handled her choices caused massive frustration for many readers, even readers who gave the book five stars!

• The Burning God is an Amazon Editor’s Pick.
• The Burning God has 3,856 ratings on Amazon and 42, 022 on Goodreads.
• Over 90% of the ratings are a whopping 5 stars.

The reason this book gets all the praise and should be turned into a movie, is because we were right there with Rin(Fang Runin) as she burned herself with candle wax just to stay awake to study for one of the toughest exams ever.

We were there with her as she scored high and got into a prestigious military school, got picked on because of her dark skin tone and poverty, and we cheered for her when she beat the bully’s a#$ to a pulp, to the…