![]() Stylistically, Jade City feels as though it mixes The Legend of Korra with Gangs of New York and a generous helping of Hong Kong action cinema. juggles the personal and the epic with deft, admirable skill, weaving a story that is equally sweeping and intimate a magical, almost operatic crime and family drama that feels all the more true because all of her jade-fueled supermen (and women) come with human hearts that bend and break the same as ours. If The Godfather never was, Jade War (and Jade City) would be how we define generational organized crime stories today. She can walk a battlefield as artfully as she describes a knife fight, and all of it is beautiful, oddly restrained, compulsively readable as Lee bounces between viewpoints, characters and storylines that each spend hundreds of pages naturally converging in cinematic, firework-bright bursts of action. She is just as comfortable in the wide shot of international relations as she is close-up, in a conversation between estranged brothers or dire enemies or a husband and wife in bed. ![]() Lee moves between these worlds with the grace of a dancer. And in her newest, Jade War, she shakes up the pieces that remain and sets half the world on fire. In Jade City she built it up and tore it down again. Lee has created an entire modern world here, complete and round with its own history, customs, traditions, language. ![]()
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