For me, these improvements created something which I hardly felt in the first book: genuine tension.

uk/landing-page/little-brown-book-group/little-brown-book-group-company-information/">Little, Brown Book Group Limited. Furthermore, such differing perspectives will provoke readers to think about and confront the judgments made by the Kauls and those that oppose them - and the tectonic shift in how I perceived the Kauls was so riveting.Best of all, there are more than a few scenes that make you hold your breath, moments that could change the game for some of the players.

For a little extra something: These books are one of the farthest things from a romance book there is but the romance sub plots are so well-written that if Fonda Lee comes out with a romance novel I’d read it to be honest. Naturally, as the world of Jade War gets bigger, readers will really begin to see how small the island of Kekon is in the context of the world stage and international relations. Fonda Lee is the World Fantasy Award-winning author of the Green Bone Saga, beginning with Jade City and continuing in Jade War and Jade Legacy. With that going on in the background there is also the issue of all the nations wanting Jade – a powerful stone that gives the holder phenomenal powers – in some capacity which has led to a black market for the sought after gems.Jade War continues the brilliantly addictive and engaging oriental urban fantasy gangster narrative that started with Jade City. Sign up to the Little, Brown newsletter for news of upcoming publications, competitions and updates from our authors. When I say that the characters become ‘greener’, I borrow the expression used by the characters in the book. Thankfully, my slight trepidation was quickly dispelled because this book is absolutely wonderful from the beginning until the end. Knowing that Shae might lose this battle, Hilo had a plan to take out everybody involved by dirtying his blade, something that is deeply forbidden within this duels but Shae does not agree with this.

He’s a nobody, a failure, a mistake, but he’s always right there at the turning points of the story. This is also not the only plot to do with Shae going on at this time, she finds out that she is pregnant with her secret boyfriend’s, Maro, baby and so with the help of Wen, she goes to have an abortion but when her boyfriend finds out, he is pissed at her because he didn’t have a decision at all in this. It’s been a while since I completed Jade City but I can’t remember her being anywhere near as important and influential as she presents herself here. However, it never feels like they’re being swept away by the plot no matter how complicated it gets.In 2020, it was announced that a TV series based on the first novel in The Green Bone Saga, Jade City, was being developed at Peacock, with Lee serving as a consulting producer. Though the perspectives come largely from the Kaul family, Jade War also explores the impact such proxy wars will have on the people, particularly refugees, people in countries rife with corruption, and the lower class people who will do what they can to make it.

I am pleased, however, to tell you all that Jade War does more than just live up to its sequel: Jade War takes everything that is good in Jade City and makes it excellent. She kills him but feels like she might have been too merciful on him despite all that he did in betraying the clan. These are flawed characters that are fighting against those flaws, and it's extremely entertaining to watch them progress through this story and interact with each other, and the side characters of this book. The writing style and the short chapters made it easy to fly through the book especially since new events unfolded throughout the book.Jade War is more brutal, more devastating, more emotional, and more than you could ever expect it to be. He’s changed from his days running the streets for the clan but he still shows elements of his merciless and stone-hearted former self when he has to. In addition, there is political turmoil, individuals that are only out for themselves and an uncertain and potentially insubstantial clan truce. He sees a culture that is familiar to him whilst being in a country that is still not known very well to him.