The Poppy War

Solidly young adult. It's dark, but still YA. If this hadn't been labeled as adult on Goodreads and pushed as such on TikTok I might not have wasted my time with it. Probably should have stopped reading when I was slogging through the second part. I'm not at all motivated to keep reading this series, which is a bummer because the first part was very good. Impressive premise and scope from the author but this needed more editing and shaping. As it is this is somewhat over-hyped.