Series
The Green Bone Saga
Fonda Lee · 3 novels · 1 novella · 1 collection · 2017–2023
Jade City opens Fonda Lee's Green Bone Saga, following the Kaul family, leaders of one of two rival jade-dealing crime clans on the island nation of Kekon, where magic jade grants enhanced abilities to trained warriors and its trade underpins the whole social order. The series follows the Kaul siblings across decades as their clan's power is challenged from within and without, blending gangster-family drama with epic fantasy. It runs across three novels plus shorter companion works.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
Map
The Green Bone Saga at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 2010s2
- 2020s3
Shape
3 novels · 1 novella · 1 collection
1 author
reads like:fantasypolitical intriguesecondary worldtimeless or unspecifiedtenseadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book5 of 5 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Jade Shardsdarkest · calmest
- The Jade Setter of Janloonbrightest · most intense