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Jade City
by Fonda Lee
adventurous
challenging
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Sometimes, when a piece of media has a reputation of being good, it turns out to actually be good. I shouldn't still be so surprised by this but I am! This was a fun and tense novel of loyalties and gang warfare. I've been repeatedly told that each book in the series is a little different in what it's trying to be, and I look forward to how this situation evolves over time.
I was a little annoyed by the lack of female characters and how long it takes before any of them are allowed to actually do anything. There's one in particular I feel was very underutilized, and I'm glad this is a series so I can hope to see more of her in the next book. The more I think about it, the more it bothers me how some things shook out. (There's a plotline I'm thinking of in particular that was given a lot of pages that just... disappears by the end of the story.) Great start to a series and I'm eager to continue, but as a self-contained book I keep picking at it.
I was a little annoyed by the lack of female characters and how long it takes before any of them are allowed to actually do anything. There's one in particular I feel was very underutilized, and I'm glad this is a series so I can hope to see more of her in the next book. The more I think about it, the more it bothers me how some things shook out. (There's a plotline I'm thinking of in particular that was given a lot of pages that just... disappears by the end of the story.) Great start to a series and I'm eager to continue, but as a self-contained book I keep picking at it.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Self harm, Violence, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Addiction, Gun violence, Racism, Sexism, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Torture, Dementia, Stalking, Death of parent
Minor: Infidelity, Pedophilia, Sexual violence, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual harassment