Immortal Longings: The #1 Sunday Times Bestseller (Flesh and False Gods)

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Princess Calla has been in hiding for five years, ever since she murdered her parents to free the people of Talin from her tyrannical family. But now she has to finish the job and there’s only one person standing in her way – her reclusive uncle, King Kasa. However, the King always greets the winner of the games. If she wins, she will finally get the chance to kill him. Former princess Calla Toulemi is hoping to enter this year’s competition, but not for the money. She’s been in hiding since she killed her parents five years ago, and her hunger for revenge against the city’s royalty is a blaze she can’t put out.

The games make jumping legal for the players, after all–they must answer for it by providing some sort of care. Collateral casualties who are gravely injured must be taken to the hospital free of cost; collateral casualties whose bodies are destroyed must be paid handsomely, and if their qi is killed alongside it, then their family members get money.”August knows exactly what he’s doing. Offer that brief distraction, and when Galipei’s attention is turned elsewhere, he decides on his next move.

The games are described as “a thrill that anyone can participate in, a solution to a kingdom simmering with complaints.” How does this frame the relationship between the royal palace and the residents of San-Er? How do the people of San-Er seem to view the games? The monarchy?

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Gong has frequently comped Immortal Longings to being about Cato and Clove and while that makes for a compelling premise, her version of the games is SO STUPID. The Hunger Games is a forced yearly tradition meant to destroy morale within the districts: they send the most vulnerable in their communities, children, into a bloodbath because they have no power to refuse the government. San-Er has games because…King Kasa’s father decided it would be entertaining. August lifts an eyebrow. It is hard to do in this body. He gestures for the photograph instead, and the man hurries to pass it over. The entire darkroom seems to hold its breath. The vents stutter to a halt. immortal longings is supposed to be an anthony and cleopatra retelling, which i know nothing about so i cannot speak on how well gong handled that aspect. however, i did think that the romeo and juliet aspects of these violent delights was well interwoven, so i am willing to give her the benefit of doubt.