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Jade City

Fonda Lee

4.13 AVERAGE

adventurous challenging 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: Yes

Really cool magic system and rich world building, but the pace was way too slow for me. Lots of exposition and too much navel gazing for my taste. I also didn’t find the characters super compelling… there was very little character development throughout this book, though I am told much more in the next two.
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
adventurous 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: Yes
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

DNF a lil over halfway through… this is the book everyone is hyping?
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DID NOT FINISH: 23%

Really good but I’m just not that into fantasy anymore.

kaul lan come home
adventurous inspiring medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes

I can see why this is heavily enjoyed but it was my first epic fantasy and I struggled with the slow pace. I didn’t enjoy or feel gripped to the story until half way through but definitely think this is a me problem! Would recommend but won’t be reaching for book 2 for a while