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I was nowhere near as obsessed with it as I thought it would be probably because idk for the concept of the book it felt surprisingly a lot slower paced than I would’ve expected and almost felt like a slice of life book especially until the middle/towards the end? Idk I’m gonna keep reading the series most likely but it just threw me off
I did think the world building was done really well tho and I liked some of the characters
Graphic: Drug use, Gore, Suicide, Violence, Murder, War
Moderate: Addiction, Sexual content
Graphic: Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Violence
Moderate: Sexual content, Sexual violence
Minor: Racism
Moderate: Death, Gore, Gun violence, Suicide
Minor: Homophobia
This book really just blew me away. It's a family saga, and a gangster novel, and a story about a formerly isolated nation forced to confront the wider world and figure out how to live alongside it. The world (especially the advantages and drawbacks of jade magic and how that is integrated) is fascinating, and all of the characters feel like real people. This book is long but not a single word feels wasted - everything that comes up even once matters.
Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Violence, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Addiction, Animal death, Drug abuse, Gore, Xenophobia, Medical content, Dementia, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol
Minor: Ableism, Bullying, Chronic illness, Confinement, Homophobia, Infidelity, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Rape, Self harm, Sexual content, Slavery, Suicide, Torture, Mass/school shootings, War, Classism
Graphic: Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Sexual content, Violence, Grief, Murder
Moderate: Pedophilia, Sexism, Sexual assault
Graphic: Death, Gore, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Dementia, Grief, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Addiction, Death, Gun violence, Violence, Murder, War
Moderate: Body horror, Cursing, Kidnapping
Minor: Gore, Kidnapping, Gaslighting
Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Self harm, Suicide, Terminal illness, Violence, Medical content, Dementia, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Medical trauma, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
Moderate: Body horror, Bullying, Misogyny, Self harm, Sexism, Kidnapping, Abortion, Outing, Cultural appropriation, Abandonment, Colonisation
Minor: Alcohol
Graphic: Body horror, Drug abuse, Drug use, Torture, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Gore, Violence, Blood
Minor: Sexual content
Some possible cons for some people:
- if you are highly character driven, you might not always have quite enough connection with the characters. Not to say that the characters are bad or poorly written at all, but the main characters are not necessarily the most lovable.
- Jade City is somewhat slow paced. It never bothered me and I thought it had a good balance of action, but the book doesn't quite ramp up until maybe halfway through.
- there's a decent bit of "telling" in terms of worldbuilding. And there are sometimes flashback-type sequences to flesh out world or character development. It did not bother me and didn't feel excessive, but I know some people really hate this.
Graphic: Cursing, Death, Drug use, Gore, Self harm, Torture, Violence, Blood, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Gun violence, Racism, Suicide, Blood, Grief
Minor: Infidelity, Kidnapping