This has to be, overall, one of the best series I have ever read. This finale was so beautiful written and crafted, and secured this series as one of my favorites, and I'm sure I'll find myself rereading it in the future. Also, I would like to sue Fonda for emotional damages because I don't think a book has ever made me sob so consistently! It was 700 pages! That's a lot of pages to be crying over!

I loved Jade City when I first listened to it back on an airplane home for the 2020 holidays. I was heading back to my family, after the longest stretch of separation from them since moving away in 2017. I saw myself in Shae, who was also returning home after an even longer time away, to a family who she wasn't sure would accept her anymore, at least not as she currently was. I fell in love with Hilo's passion and ferocity, Lan's desperation to lead a fracturing city and country, with every single one of these characters. And when I started my reread of Jade City in November 2021, in order to continue this series, I fell in love with them all over again.

The Green Bone Saga has to be one of the most meticulously crafted, well-written trilogies I've ever read. I found myself losing minutes, hours, days in the pages of these books, losing thoughts to these characters and their fictional issues. Quite frankly, I found myself wholly obsessed, bewitched even, by the words on these pages. (And I have to commend the narration of the audiobooks here, which brought a whole extra layer to this story. The range of emotion that the narrator was able to articulate when speaking was breathtaking, and I especially love how well he played Hilo, especially at his rawest moments.)

Jade Legacy is the crowning achievement of this saga, spanning decades and continents, bringing together every moment that the last two books contained. Everything mattered, every small spoken word brought to fruition within Legacy's pages. You could almost physically feel every small side story coming full circle once again, imparting its own lesson or final meaning on the reader as the book drew to a close. I still cannot believe how full of meaning the ending truly was, and I'm still left pondering the end that was given to certain characters. I feel this story in my bones, and I honestly never expected to love it quite this much.

I don't think I can ever quite forgive Fonda Lee for what she made me go through during these three books, and especially Jade Legacy, but I am grateful for this reading experience and for the sheer range of emotions it evoked in me. I've read many fantastic books in 2021, but this series is definitely one of the best.