Jade City

Over het boek

Jade City is a 2017 fantasy novel by Fonda Lee. It is the first novel in the Green Bone Saga and was followed by Jade War (2019) and Jade Legacy (2021). A prequel novella, The Jade Setter of Janloon, was released in 2022; and a collection of short stories, Jade Shards, was released in 2023. The novel received critical praise, winning the 2018 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel, the 2018 Aurora Award for Best Novel, and was a finalist for the 2017 Nebula Award for Best Novel.

Waar de score vandaan komt

De bronnen komen gemiddeld uit op 8,1 over 981 beoordelingen. Met zoveel beoordelingen weegt de stem van de lezers voor 84% mee en blijft de score op 8,2 — het Ranglijsten-gemiddelde van 7,8 verschuift hem nauwelijks. Nog eens +0,10 komt van de kleine bonus voor grote prijzen.

Stemmen van lezers

De populairste recensies op Hardcover (met naamsvermelding van de auteurs).

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  “I FINALLY FINISHED THIS. half of the book was such a slog to get through and i honestly would have dnf'd if i didn't buy the entire trilogy at once like an insane person. still not sure why i did that, but at least now i probably won't sell the books like i was thinking of doing until this one finally picked up. the worldbuilding and setting is the strongest part of this novel for sure– characters felt a little flat (love Hilo though), and the prose occasionally got on my nerves in the way of its VEHEMENT insistence on telling and not showing. it sort of felt like the author didn't have much…”

  ★ 3/5monkeyplushie op Hardcover

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