Jade War
The Green Bone Saga • Book 2
by Fonda Lee
Narrated by Andrew Kishino
Why Listen to This Audiobook?
Andrew Kishino makes a 24-hour epic feel like it ends too soon.
- Great if you want: clan politics, family loyalty, and geopolitical stakes intertwined
- Listening experience: dense and slow-building, then relentlessly tense in the back half
- Narration: Kishino distinguishes a large cast with precision and emotional range
- Skip if: you haven't read Jade City — this picks up mid-war
About This Audiobook
The war between the Kaul and Mountain clans has spread beyond Kekon's shores, pulling in foreign governments, mercenary organizations, and criminal networks who all want access to jade. The second Green Bone Saga novel stretches the series' moral complexity to match its geographical expansion — alliances require compromises, honor has a price, and the Kaul siblings find themselves making decisions that the first book's warrior codes could not have anticipated. Fonda Lee's worldbuilding deepens considerably here.
Andrew Kishino's performance handles the novel's expansion to international scope without losing the intimate family drama at the series' center. His voice carries the weight of a story that genuinely earns its length — at nearly 24 hours, Jade War is the middle installment that justifies the trilogy's ambition. Locus Award winner for Best Fantasy Novel, this is speculative fiction that operates at the level of the best literary family sagas.
