Name: The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang
Start: 2025-06-28T17:00:00.000Z
Location: Still life coffee & botanicals

Celebrate Mythical May with The Final Familiars by reading Blood Over Bright Haven by ML Wang!

This event is free for club members to attend, but we ask that members consider purchasing from the establishment where the event is held. We love showing these small businesses our support!

Magic has made the city of Tiran an industrial utopia, but magic has a cost—and the collectors have come calling.

An orphan since the age of four, Sciona has always had more to prove than her fellow students. For twenty years, she has devoted every waking moment to the study of magic, fueled by a mad desire to achieve the impossible: to be the first woman ever admitted to the High Magistry. When she finally claws her way up the ranks to become a highmage, however, she finds that her challenges have just begun. Her new colleagues will stop at nothing to let her know she is unwelcome, beginning with giving her a janitor instead of a qualified lab assistant.

What neither Sciona nor her peers realize is that her taciturn assistant was once more than a janitor; before he mopped floors for the mages, Thomil was a nomadic hunter from beyond Tiran’s magical barrier. Ten years have passed since he survived the perilous crossing that killed his family. But working for a highmage, he sees the opportunity to finally understand the forces that decimated his tribe, drove him from his homeland, and keep the Tiranish in power.

Through their fractious relationship, mage and outsider uncover an ancient secret that could change the course of magic forever—if it doesn’t get them killed first. Sciona has defined her life by the pursuit of truth, but how much is one truth worth with the fate of civilization in the balance?

The Final Familiars Book Club

Kaitlyn

Katherine Sexton

Andrea

Mallory

Isabelle Vaughan

Brennah

Mandi

Blood Over Bright Haven by ML Wang

Still life coffee & botanicals

*Update: Optional, but encouraged, to wear a silly hat!

Join us for a Book Club Book Crawl! We’re meeting at Four Leaves Winery and going to 2-3 book stores afterwards as time allows.

Whether you’re just looking to window-shop or looking to fill your book bag, we’ll journey together from one cozy spot to the next. Get ready for swapping book recs, snapping pics, bookish vibes, and bonding along the way.

Come with comfy shoes, a curious mind, and your TBR list ready to grow!

Book Crawl Social

Four Leaves Winery

Celebrate Justice June with The Final Familiars by reading The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang!

This event is free for club members to attend, but we ask that members consider purchasing from the establishment where the event is held. We love showing these small businesses our support!

When Rin aced the Keju—the Empire-wide test to find the most talented youth to learn at the Academies—it was a shock to everyone: to the test officials, who couldn’t believe a war orphan from Rooster Province could pass without cheating; to Rin’s guardians, who believed they’d finally be able to marry her off and further their criminal enterprise; and to Rin herself, who realized she was finally free of the servitude and despair that had made up her daily existence. That she got into Sinegard—the most elite military school in Nikan—was even more surprising.

But surprises aren’t always good.

Because being a dark-skinned peasant girl from the south is not an easy thing at Sinegard. Targeted from the outset by rival classmates for her color, poverty, and gender, Rin discovers she possesses a lethal, unearthly power—an aptitude for the nearly-mythical art of shamanism. Exploring the depths of her gift with the help of a seemingly insane teacher and psychoactive substances, Rin learns that gods long thought dead are very much alive—and that mastering control over those powers could mean more than just surviving school.

For while the Nikara Empire is at peace, the Federation of Mugen still lurks across a narrow sea. The militarily advanced Federation occupied Nikan for decades after the First Poppy War, and only barely lost the continent in the Second. And while most of the people are complacent to go about their lives, a few are aware that a Third Poppy War is just a spark away . . .

Rin’s shamanic powers may be the only way to save her people. But as she finds out more about the god that has chosen her, the vengeful Phoenix, she fears that winning the war may cost her humanity . . . and that it may already be too late.

The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang

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