Jade War

This is the exact opposite of “middle book syndrome”, it is a brilliant sequel and expands everything laid out so well in Jade City.

My thoughts about the first book still stand after reading the sequel - you should not go into this expecting an expansive high fantasy with the usual cast of creatures. This is an epic clan saga, with a low fantasy magic system in an urban setting.

The strengths of this series are the characters and the storyline of the ongoing clan war. Whilst there is the occasional dry moment, where the reader is simply witnessing a political business meeting (yawn!), they never last long and the plot picks up again.

I had some major shocks in this one, I actually gasped at a couple of them, they came as such a shock which is just a sign of Fonda Lee's great writing.

This is turning out to be an amazing series and I will be moving onto the finale very soon.