While the setting is unique, it touches upon modern day issues- and how it all ties back to the interconnectivity of the worldbuilding. Modern Day parallels to nationalism, racism, corporatism, etc. Sometimes, the deaths seem senseless (grrr, I'm looking at you, Leigh Bardugo, in the Grishaverse, in what were my favorite reads of 2021!) but the impact of those losses on other characters is part of their growth, and has significant development toward the plot.Ĥ. You never know if your favorite character is going to survive even the most innocuous scenes, so you're always on edge.
They're so textured and real, so that despite some moral greyness, you can't help but to care about them.īecause Lee kills off beloved main characters, it amps up the tension. Genetics, international relations, international business, clan culture, etc. To me, interconnectivity and continuity are two of the most important aspects of worldbuilding, the aspects that make a fictional world feel real and live in.
It was a satisfying, bittersweet ending for a series that gave me all the feels- I read Jade City back in 2018, but binged the last two from the last week of December. Fonda Lee is the World Fantasy Award-winning author of the epic Green Bone Saga, beginning with Jade City and continuing in Jade War and Jade Legacy. Born and raised in Canada, Lee is a black belt martial artist, a former corporate strategist, and action movie aficionado who now lives in Portland, Oregon with her family. To celebrate, World Fantasy Award winner Fonda Lee dropped by r/Fantasy for an AMA to talk worldbuilding, her favorite fictional duels, her dream cast for a Green Bone Saga TV series, writing. Yesterday, I finished Jade Legacy, Book 3 of Fonda Lee's Greenbone Saga. Fonda Lee is the World Fantasy Award-winning author of Jade City and the award-winning YA science fiction novels Zeroboxer, Exo, and Cross Fire.
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