A review by chasejon
Jade City by Fonda Lee

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot

3.5

An agonizingly slow start in the first 150 pages resulted in a tense mafia story accompanied by an interesting and high stakes magic system. There were definitely times where I was more invested in characters or scenes and other times where I really did not care about the outcome. As the first book setting up a trilogy, it was decent. I will be continuing the series, especially since I've heard this is the weakest of the trilogy. I also listened to a few chapters on audiobook and enjoyed that experience as well, as it's a very proper noun heavy book (names and locations), so audio was easier to follow for some of the introductory chapters.