Like, it just delivered on every front. Fonda Lee was DEEP in her bag when she created this.
There is world building and then there is WORLD BUILDING. The world building in this series is so ambitious and we'll executed. It's the first urban fantasy series I'm reading that isn't set in our own world. Fonda created her own world with her own continents and countries, with modern day technology and stuff like visas and airports.
The main tension/conflict in this series is between the No Peak Clan (my babies) and the Mountain Clan. They are the two major Greenbone clans and they mostly control Jade. Jade is *that* bitch and gives people so much extraordinary and superhuman powers. There's the Greenbone, and those are people with a natural ability to use jade.
The characters. Oh my God. There are so fucking many characters over the three books and the way they're fleshed out??? We follow a number of main characters and POVs but each one is just distinct. Each main character is their own person. It's just so beautiful to read and watch them grow. The emotional investment? 100 million percent. They have my heart forever.
My favorite is of course Kaul Hilo and all the members of the Kaul family. But there's just something about Ayt Madashi, who's the big bad over the three books. She's just so formidable and inspirational, villain or not.
If you've read Legendborn, you're not stranger to fantasy systems with lots of moving parts and heirarchies with different names for who does what and who answers to who. This is just on another level and I'm proud of myself for learning everything even with the audio.
The audiobook narrator was the same for the trilogy and even though I would have appreciated an ensemble cast, he did a great job.
I laughed, I cried, I basically lived all the years spent out in these books (30 or so) with these characters. I love them and these books!
Like, it just delivered on every front. Fonda Lee was DEEP in her bag when she created this.
There is world building and then there is WORLD BUILDING. The world building in this series is so ambitious and we'll executed. It's the first urban fantasy series I'm reading that isn't set in our own world. Fonda created her own world with her own continents and countries, with modern day technology and stuff like visas and airports.
The main tension/conflict in this series is between the No Peak Clan (my babies) and the Mountain Clan. They are the two major Greenbone clans and they mostly control Jade. Jade is *that* bitch and gives people so much extraordinary and superhuman powers. There's the Greenbone, and those are people with a natural ability to use jade.
The characters. Oh my God. There are so fucking many characters over the three books and the way they're fleshed out??? We follow a number of main characters and POVs but each one is just distinct. Each main character is their own person. It's just so beautiful to read and watch them grow. The emotional investment? 100 million percent. They have my heart forever.
My favorite is of course Kaul Hilo and all the members of the Kaul family. But there's just something about Ayt Madashi, who's the big bad over the three books. She's just so formidable and inspirational, villain or not.
If you've read Legendborn, you're not stranger to fantasy systems with lots of moving parts and heirarchies with different names for who does what and who answers to who. This is just on another level and I'm proud of myself for learning everything even with the audio.
The audiobook narrator was the same for the trilogy and even though I would have appreciated an ensemble cast, he did a great job.
I laughed, I cried, I basically lived all the years spent out in these books (30 or so) with these characters. I love them and these books!...more
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