Jade Legacy

3.5 stars

such a great ending. It was so fulfilling emotional and rewarding. The themes of family defining our identities and growing with us will stick with me for a while.

I think overall the series had such strong characters and strong arcs. But i think the politics and the worldbuilding kind of held the series back. All the locations that we visited in the series were so wonderfully built but there were so many more we barely touched and only heard about through politicking that it made me so much less invested in those sections.

Also while the character arcs were so rewarding, it felt like there was so much telling of the characters rather than showing. The transition from the first book's action packed gangster/clan warfare to a more strategic story that carried the same values and characters was really elegant but it led to some weaker development especially when we skipped around in time so much.