However, thank goodness I did not let that deter me from trying this book out. This is a book that is part of a series so many of my friends from the writing community raved about, and had received so many prestigious accolades, I felt compelled to give it a try.įirst, I’ll say outright, urban fantasy is NOT my preferred sub-genre in the greater fantasy sphere. That is one of the questions that author Fonda Lee seems to pose to the readers of her celebrated, 2018 World Fantasy Award Winning gangster-filled urban fantasy novel, “Jade City”, Book One in the lauded “Green Bone Saga”. Her green bones.”Ĭan members of an criminal organization engaging in violent activities – an organization that by its very nature is abhorrent, ruthless, predatory, and motivated by power, greed, and self-preservation above all else – be ‘good’ or ‘noble’ people? Her body became the island of Kekon, and the veins of jade that ran under these mountains were her bones. “In the old Abukei myths Shae remembered Kyanla telling her as a child, the First Mother goddess, Nimuma, fell into the ocean and perished from exertion after creating the world.
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