Jade War

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Neither can I say this novel suffers the “middle book syndrome”, because I really don’t know what it was supposed to set up for the sequel.

We also have 3 maps at the start of the book as we are now talking about politics on a continent level. It made things feel more global, and increased the tension and importance of the events that occurred. Certain individuals may be hugging their children in one scene, then executing someone gangland-style in the next, and then crying about the death of a close friend a few scenes later. No Peak can’t do it alone, but there’s only one other Clan who can help… And it doesn’t take years of Green Bone training to work out that inviting a snake like Ayt Mada in to your home means that you’re going to get bit. Although there are many reasons to love Jade City, I think a reason why this book is so bloody brilliant is because of its characters.In the same vein, Jade War will delve further into the characters, their identities, and their motivations, as they grapple with new roles and responsibilities in the clan that will force them to make impossible decisions. So when Fonda Lee ran a contest on Twitter, tasking readers to come up with a Jade City-inspired art to win an ARC of Jade War, never in my life had I felt so grateful and excited to have some artistic ability.

In Jade War, we mostly follow the point of view perspectives of important members of the No Peak clan.

These are flawed characters that are fighting against those flaws, and it's extremely entertaining to watch them progress through this story and interact with each other, and the side characters of this book. I enjoyed the explorations of how people of diaspora find and maintain pieces of their heritage as a process of cultural preservation of their identities and forming communities, whilst also adopting behaviours and ways of life typical in their new home which may be alienating and othering from the perspective of someone who has never had to straddle two cultures. The author mentioned in the acknowledgements about the "seemingly impossible task of following up the biggest, most ambitious novel" she's ever written with "an even bigger and more ambitious novel". p>Sign up to the Little, Brown newsletter for news of upcoming publications, competitions and updates from our authors.