Jade City
The Green Bone Saga, Book 1
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Narrateur(s):
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Andrew Kishino
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Auteur(s):
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Fonda Lee
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Nominee for Nebula Award for Best Novel
In this World Fantasy Award-winning novel of magic and kungfu, four siblings battle rival clans for honor and power in an Asia-inspired fantasy metropolis.
Jade is the lifeblood of the island of Kekon. It has been mined, traded, stolen, and killed for - and for centuries, honorable Green Bone warriors like the Kaul family have used it to enhance their magical abilities and defend the island from foreign invasion.
Now, the war is over and a new generation of Kauls vies for control of Kekon's bustling capital city. They care about nothing but protecting their own, cornering the jade market, and defending the districts under their protection. Ancient tradition has little place in this rapidly changing nation.
When a powerful new drug emerges that lets anyone - even foreigners - wield jade, the simmering tension between the Kauls and the rival Ayt family erupts into open violence. The outcome of this clan war will determine the fate of all Green Bones - and of Kekon itself.
The Green Bone Saga
- Jade City
- Jade War
- Jade Legacy
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Ce que les critiques en disent
Named one of TIME's Top 100 Fantasy Book of All Time
Winner of World Fantasy Award for Best Novel
Winner of Aurora Award for Best Novel
Finalist of Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel
2017, Nebula Award, Runner-up
2018, World Fantasy Award, Winner
2018, Aurora Award, Winner
2018, Locus Award, Runner-up
"A beautifully realized setting, a great cast of characters, and dramatic action scenes. What a fun, gripping read!" (Ann Leckie, Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author)
"An instantly absorbing tale of blood, honor, family and magic, spiced with unexpectedly tender character beats." (NPR)
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Au global4 out of 5 stars
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Performance4 out of 5 stars
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- Karen
- 2022-01-16
A Great Start for a Trilogy!
Jade City has a lot of things I love in a story. Strong characters, conflicts, betrayals and magic. I personally admire Shae and Anden. Ayt is another great figure. For a first book, it's common to have a slow-paced rhythm since it's presenting the reader with the background, universe and purpose. However, that didn't bother me at all. I enjoyed everything and I cant not wait to see what Jade War will bring. Kudos to Fonda Lee and Andrew Kishino to bring the story to life. Clans, violence, politics? Definetely, a modern and fantasy take on The Godfather. Two thumbs up!
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Au global5 out of 5 stars
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- Shelley
- 2020-08-26
Absolutely Fantastic
Everything really came together in this book to make something truely special. It's really something new and refreshing to the genre and explores some great concepts in a new way that I really haven't seen before. Give it a go, you won't regret it. Great story and great performance.
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Au global4 out of 5 stars
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- Dialla
- 2024-05-06
Really enjoyed it
Fantasy set in an Asian-inspired modern world. I really appreciated how nuanced the characters were. Fonda Lee describes perfectly their flaws but also their strengths, making for complex protagonists.
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- Trillium25
- 2019-08-19
Stressful, yet so entertaining
This story was bada$$ and I loved every minute, even though I was scared for the wellbeing of all my favourite characters!
The world building was very easy to follow, and so was the plot. The story flew by me.
Narrator read pretty slowly, I actually had to speed up his reading to 1.65x which is the fastest I've ever gone... usually I don't go past 1.25x
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- Yawar Khan
- 2019-12-12
Interesting story but I'm just not into it...
When I read the summary and other reviews, I was very excited to get this book. Unfortunately, the story moves slowly and I'm just not getting into it. Its become very hard to finish.
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- The Polley's
- 2022-05-03
Epic Clan / Yakuza style political drama
This book slowly builds the political tension within the city of janloon families tear at each other both in blood and with physiological warfare as the war for Jade and gold kicks off.
With so many twists and turns in the second half of this book and even more at the end the build up in the first half is worth the wait and I cannot wait to read book 2
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Au global4 out of 5 stars
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- Chris Conrod
- 2020-09-19
Interesting take on modern fantasy, I'd recommend!
To start off, this is a great book. The character work is done well for the main cast, although the secondary characters are a bit shallow. The plot moves along quick enough to keep you "turning pages". Found myself wanting to finish just one more chapter.
Again the narration is great and I enjoyed the entire performance.
I guess the best praise I can give: Finishing this book made me want to pick the next one up right away.
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- rhea
- 2022-04-05
awesome book
I really loved this story. The narrator's voice was great. not irritating. did the female voices in a normal way so you weren't wincing. I enjoyed the ups and downs of the one family and look forward to reading the next book
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- Xavier Yuvens
- 2023-12-12
DNF after 4hrs of listening
Narrator gets the tone right, but the story has no pace. The 10 chapters I got through should have been 2-3 chapters at most, as the story is just starting now. But it’s too late, I’m out. What came before was just loads and loads of exposition being shovelled in our ears about the different factions, the power scales, the social fabrics… Meet this character, meet this one, meet this other one—they’ll be important later! Ugh.
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- marcus
- 2019-10-25
elegant and awesome
I'm left in awe. Please try it. This was really great. All expectations were exceeded. The story combines power, identity, family, legacy, politics, and loss in very satisfying way. The action scenes were gripping. The characters felt understandable and relatable. The setting feels like a real place. I haven't read a setting this clearly articulated and felt in a long time. There was a ton of atmosphere.
The central concept of a type of jade that bestows heightened abilities on those who wear it was handled in a compelling and intriguingly layered way. Jade isn't just a one dimensional power booster. It can damage just as much or more than it gifts if not handled the right way. There are dangers to wearing it, and inborn senstivity as well as level or lack of training affects one's capacity to use it. It can make people godlike martial artists but also destroy their lives. It's hard to sum up in a quick way but it worked very well as a focal point for character struggles and action sequences and the way it informed the culture of the country the story happens in.
There are a lot of POV character changes from chapter to chapter. It was reminiscent of the Game of Thrones books in that way, but with a smaller cast of characters and everything feels much tighter because POV characters are dealing with connecting situations within one city.
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