![]() ![]() The latter is spread out across different areas, with disgraced, exiled Anden off on the other side of the world in Espenia, trying to carve out a new life for himself. The first 120 pages of so exclusively settle on the fall-out from the devastating clan war between Ayt Madashi’s Mountain Clan and Kaul Hilo’s No Peak clan. Instead, the pace here is far more slow and methodical, and the war that this book depicts is more of a guerilla effort, almost teasing a cold war that never quite materializes, as the two clans in Kekon wrestle for control – no matter the cost. In many ways, Jade War is a victim of its own success, buckling under the weight of expectation and not quite living up to the taut, well-paced and gripping first novel that many (including yours truly) fell in love with. This time around, Kekon is but a dot on a much larger, expansive world, with notably more countries, divisions and situations ready to explode at a moment’s notice. In Jade City, we were introduced to the Island of Kekon through a handy city map, dividing up the territories. Nowhere else is that more evident than in the first pages before you actually get to the story itself. After the astonishingly good work done to establish the world and feuds in Jade City, this second volume is decidedly more expansive, boasting nearly 600 pages and chock full of character, plot and worldbuilding. ![]() ![]() And for the characters in Fonda Lee’s Green Bone Trilogy, that phrase is perhaps no more apt that in this second book, Jade War. ![]()
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