The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang is a historical military fantasy fiction novel. Whew. That was a mouthful. Okay, so this story draws a lot of its plot as well as politics from mid-20th century China. In this story, we follow Fang Runin or Rin. Rin is an orphaned child, as a result of the previous war who grew up poor as the unwanted addition …