Jade War

, #2

Hardcover, 590 pages

Published April 13, 2019 by Orbit.

ISBN:
978-0-316-4409-2
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OCLC Number:
1105148022

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4 stars (32 reviews)

5 editions

reviewed Jade War by Fonda Lee (The Green Bone Saga, #2)

More international perspectives, but fails to offer nuance into social acceptance of violence and death held by Green Bones

4 stars

Enjoyed the larger worldbuilding and international politics / perspectives. Disliked that some of the main characters do atrocious acts, and that they are not commented on or addressed in the story by other characters. Omitting those discussions might have been a choice on how to portray the Green Bone society, but I think it robs other characters of nuance in thought / view.

reviewed Jade War by Fonda Lee (The Green Bone Saga, #2)

a broader story, a chance for some half-drawn characters from book 1 to be fully realised

5 stars

Content warning spoilers all over

Review of 'Jade War' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

Easiest five stars I've given in a long time. This book was absolutely excellent. Expertly crafted from beginning to end. I am constantly wowed by how well Fonda Lee writes characters and complex, intertwining narratives. This was simply amazing, I don't know what else needs to be said. I was concerned this would suffer from middle book syndrome, but as much as I loved Jade City, I loved this book so much more. This took all of the fantastic markers of the first book and improved upon them.

Be warned, this book is deeply, deeply political. Moreso than the first one, and that works for my tastes but it might not be for everyone's. This installment dives deeply into the complicated position the No Peak clan is in, and their constant tug-o-war relationship with their rival Mountain Clan. We get to see fantastic character arcs for many characters, relationship development, …

Review of 'Jade War' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

Make no mistake: We're still at war, in a different way.

Jade War is a solid sequel that continues to deliver on all areas that made Jade City an excellent read.

Lasting peace came from unequivocal victory.

I won't writing up paragraphs for a review but Fonda Lee continues to maintain tension with all characters and put them through an emotional gauntlet if they survive to the end of the story.

...the gods don't determine fate. People do. Powerful people.

The expansion of the Green Bone clans, foreign countries and the conflicts that come from either was nicely balanced and I didn't feel that there was too much or too little information to follow along.

Now on to Legacy and conclude this series.

reviewed Jade War by Fonda Lee (The Green Bone Saga, #2)

Review of 'Jade War' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

A fantastic followup to an already solid first entry in the series. Perfect balance between the PoV characters, all of which I find interesting and unpredictable (Shae is my favorite tho), an increased scope in terms of setting, great pacing and capital T Tension all throughout... just a good book. The trilogy's finale can't come out soon enough!

reviewed Jade War by Fonda Lee (The Green Bone Saga, #2)

Review of 'Jade War' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

I almost didn't give this 5 stars, but then I looked back through my recent books and it beat every 4-star book out. The combination of complex, flawed, motivated characters, interesting politics, and the aspect of jade all made this book and the first in the series some of my favorites in a long time

Also, it struck me as almost strange that I liked every different viewpoint, that never happens, there's always one or more characters that I really don't care about. Well, these books broke that rule, and I was never unhappy to switch to another character

Review of 'Jade War' on 'Storygraph'

5 stars

There was so much death in Jade City that I came into Jade War assuming this book would be a river of blood, but I was wrong in the best way. This is an excellent and moderately bloody sequel filled with the political and inter-personal fallout from Jade City (plus a lot of its own thing which sometimes does actually involve a lot of blood). Many of the moves made here are positioning and jockeying for the final stages of this conflict which I expect will happen in the conclusion to the trilogy, Jade Legacy. There are moments of (sometimes very intense) violence and a conclusion which had me on the edge of my seat; the tension and quiet between are managed really well across the nearly 600-page book. Jade City set me up to expect that anyone could die and that a lot of people would. This is the …

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