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Jade War by Fonda Lee

14 reviews

reddeddy's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Pregnancy, Racial slurs, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Cultural appropriation, Grief, Confinement, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, Trafficking, War, Gore, Sexual content, Violence, Gun violence, Mass/school shootings, Suicidal thoughts, Chronic illness, Colonisation, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Medical trauma, Body horror, Classism, Death, Physical abuse, Abandonment, Blood, Racism, Xenophobia, Abortion, Death of parent, Drug abuse, and Torture

Moderate: Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Slavery, Sexual harassment, Toxic friendship, Addiction, Homophobia, Misogyny, Ableism, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Genocide, Toxic relationship, Rape, Deportation, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Sexual violence, and Cursing

Minor: Animal death, Biphobia, Body shaming, Self harm, Bullying, Religious bigotry, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Alcoholism, Dysphoria, Mental illness, Outing, Domestic abuse, Addiction, Vomit, and Infertility

lunep's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I am...speechless, like Fonda Lee herself said in the aknowledgments, this was even bigger and more ambitious than Jade City, and Jade City was already very big and ambitious, it was a very tough act to follow, but Jade War did it amazingly. I had no idea what was going to happen in this book, after the events of the first one, considering

the first one is called Jade City but it shows all out clan war, and in Jade War the Pillars make a public truce lmao

, but it had me hooked from the first moment, so much so that I don't know when I'll be able to read Jade Legacy because I'm back at working on my thesis with a class-like schedule and my director gives me deadlines and I can't let myself get obssesed with a book and being incapable of working lmao (same reason why I haven't watched the atla live action)
Also because my last review was long but focused on what I didn't like, I want to give more depth to my positive reviews so I'm gonna make a couple positive comments about what stayed with me the most:

• This book made me absolutely adore Wen. She didn't have too much screen time in the first, and her character at the beggining was clouded by Shae's view of her, so I loved getting to see more of her this book, and what we saw of her. I loved how she was there for Shae when Shae went trough rough patches, and how both of them helped each other and truly became friends and sisters. I loved how she wasn't scared of doing whatever she could to help her clan, and how she knew what her strenghts were and played to them. She's just amazing
  and I hope she gets better on book 3, I was seriously so scared at the end of the book when she, Anden, and Rohn Toro got attacked, I was literally screaming at my ipad
• I also loved Anden's growth, he was already one of my favorite characters from book 1, and I felt so much for him at the end of it and at the beggining of this one, but I'm glad to see he grew onto himself more fully. He's my baby

I'm very intrigued to see what happens now in Jade Legacy, but I'm also terrified lmao. I want the Kauls to be happy but honestly this series gives me very big tragedy vibes, like, how are they going to be able to live happy and in peace after all the bloodshed that has happened? This all started bc of Lan's death, and so many more people have died so far, how can it be possible for one side to survive and have no enemies trying to get revenge without having to wipe the whole side of their enemies? And how could they live in peace afterwards knowing they killed so many people? I can't wait to see how Fonda Lee ties everything up

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Misogyny, Alcohol, Murder, Sexual content, Racial slurs, Racism, Gore, Drug use, Cursing, Torture, Grief, Blood, Death, Pregnancy, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Medical content, Suicide, Homophobia, Drug abuse, Xenophobia, Animal cruelty, Abortion, and Rape

Minor: Ableism, Infidelity, Animal death, Child death, Suicidal thoughts, Addiction, Sexism, Pedophilia, Vomit, Cancer, and Excrement

praaliine's review

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

i definitely liked this a lot more than jade city. was it a life changing read? almost. was it well-written and enjoyable af? YES. although this book is not wholly character driven, the characters are still the lifeblood of this story, so much that it feels like i’m reading an exclusively character driven book. i’m deeply interested in all the characters (minus bero. why is he even there?), and funny enough, they give me a lot to think about in real life. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Cursing, Gun violence, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Grief, Death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Drug abuse, Vomit, Sexual content, and Drug use

bubbly_lara's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

This was as good as Jade City. We follow the Kaul family even further in their efforts to secure No Peak's position in Kekon and are given much more POVs and insights than in the first book. Anden is now living abroad in Port Massy, Republic of Espenia, and we follow him and his endeavour to make a home for himself far away from the Green Bone culture, family and expectations he grew up in. There's so much happening at the same time while tensions are high and the stakes are as high as they can get. I cannot wait to see how the story concludes in Jade Legacy.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, War, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Alcohol, Racial slurs, Violence, Blood, Cursing, Drug abuse, Grief, Racism, Sexism, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Abortion, Stalking, Pregnancy, and Vomit

Minor: Rape and Sexual assault

maelikesbooks's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

New favourite series

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Car accident, Death, Drug abuse, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Drug use, Grief, Murder, Violence, Sexual content, Cursing, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Abortion, Blood, and War

bearystarry's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

I think this was the perfect sequel to the first book.

Even though my favourite character died halfway through the first book

these characters are some of my favourites in everything I've ever read. Even when you're frustrated by them you love them. Shae's arc was Heartbreaking. I'm terrified (in the best way, if that's possible) to read the final book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Addiction, Gun violence, Drug abuse, Violence, Drug use, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Xenophobia, Sexual content, Colonisation, Blood, Alcohol, Murder, Torture, Suicidal thoughts, Abortion, Death of parent, Cursing, Excrement, Death, and Classism

Moderate: Sexual violence, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, Self harm, Rape, Pedophilia, Cancer, Adult/minor relationship, Terminal illness, and War

jessiereads98's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

While this one doesn’t hit quite as hard for me as Jade City did, it’s close. If I could give this like a 4.85 or 4.90 it would be more accurate. Fonda Lee continues and expands her masterful world building here by interweaving international cultures and politics with that of Kekon. The crafting of politics and international relations here is truly an impressive feat. Unfortunately with the new politics, settings, and characters we end up losing some time with Kekon and the Kauls. The time jumping around and pacing in this book just felt messier and more inconsistent to me than the first book. The pacing doesn’t seem to pick up to where it was in the first book until the last 150-200 pages when the separate threads laid out throughout the story start to come together. Overall a strong follow up to Jade City but does seem to suffer somewhat from the second book syndrome of largely setting things up for the third book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Drug use, Violence, Xenophobia, Addiction, and Death

Moderate: Blood, Racism, Torture, Gore, and Gun violence

Minor: Confinement, Rape, Grief, Misogyny, Abortion, Colonisation, Cursing, Medical content, Sexism, Sexual content, Alcohol, Classism, Fire/Fire injury, Homophobia, Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, and War

jakepasseri's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

Amazing read, definitely better than the last one (if that is possible)! The only issue was with

the constant time jumps made it difficult to follow at times

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Racial slurs, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Hate crime, Gun violence, Blood, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Gore, Grief, Suicide, Murder, War, Body horror, Death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Abortion, Child abuse, and Colonisation

Minor: Homophobia, Adult/minor relationship, Pedophilia, Sexual content, and Self harm

_azure76's review

adventurous dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Violence, Death, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Drug abuse, and Drug use

Minor: Cursing

scorpiogirl93's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

Really sped through this, loved the politics, both domestic and international. Even though it's a fantastical setting, the politics of the world is very real and has many parallels to our world. Wen is my favorite character. She is not a fighter, but she is one of the strongest people in the story. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abortion, Violence, Cursing, Death, and Murder