Our critics select the best of the year s novels to slip under the tree from literary fiction and sci-fi to contemporary and thrillers, the Daily Mail has selected some of the best books that will please all
What makes Stephen King unique? Oddly, it s neither grue nor gore, but his tender attention to the pulse of day-to-day life - before it all goes horribly wrong
As any writer will tell you, endings are difficult. Sticking the landing of an acclaimed trilogy that has garnered multiple nominations in its field? Yeah, that’s even more difficult, and R.F. Kuang does it beautifully in
The Burning God.
The Poppy War Trilogy is the story of Fang Runin’s rise from obscurity to power, and how she claws her way to the top using any means possible. Rin has been described as an antihero, and it’s no different in this final chapter. How power shapes her is important, but truthfully it is how her power and her thirst for it shapes the choices that she makes for everyone else that is the core of the story in this third installment.