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TITLE The Sword of Kaigen
AUTHOR M.L Wang
Genre Fantasy
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Emotional Impact 9.75
Characters 9.75
Plot 8.25
Worldbuilding / Magic System 8.5
Dialogue / Prose 9
Official Rating 9.09
Goodreads Rating 5
Date Started 1/15/2024
Date Finished 1/18/2024
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NOTES Amazing book, wonderful ATLA magic system with just mind blowing character work. Makes me feel what it is like to be a mother as a 24 year old man. There are some negatives for me, namely the very beginning and the very end, but the emotional Impact and characters outweigh all the negatives in this story and then some...

TITLE Jade War
AUTHOR Fonda Lee
Genre Fantasy
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Emotional Impact 8.5
Characters 9.25
Plot 8
Worldbuilding / Magic System 8
Dialogue / Prose 8.25
Official Rating 8.41
Goodreads Rating 4
Date Started 1/22/2024
Date Finished 1/25/2024
NOTES Improvement on the first, love that Fonda Lee expands the scope and we get to explore outside of Janloon but somehow the story cuts even deeper for our main characters

TITLE Jade City
AUTHOR Fonda Lee
Genre Fantasy
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Emotional Impact 8.25
Characters 9
Plot 7.75
Worldbuilding / Magic System 7.75
Dialogue / Prose 8.25
Official Rating 8.20
Goodreads Rating 4
Date Started 1/18/2024
Date Finished 1/22/2024
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NOTES Really fun asian-inspired story with a unique low magic system, loved the big clan dynamics. Reminds me of 1980s Hong Kong / Mafia movies