Avatar Legends: City of Echoes

De: Judy I. Lin

Narrado por: Nancy Wu

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Judy I. Lin comes a brand-new series featuring the unsung heroes behind legendary events within the world of Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra.

There is no war outside of these walls.

This is what the citizens of Ba Sing Se are told to believe, but Jin knows better. As a refugee whose parents were killed by the Fire Nation, she is haunted by her past. Now, she does her best to keep her head down in the Lower Ring, caring for her ailing grandfather and balancing school with survival. Her one bright spot is her best friend, Susu, whose family treats Jin like one of their own, and whose bakery she helps make deliveries for.

Her world shatters when Susu is forced to take a contract in the Upper Ring to pay off her father’s gambling debt. Jin vows to help her friend—no matter what it takes. A chain of events fueled by her desperate promise leads Jin to Xuan, an arrogant boy with ties to the Silver Fangs, a major player in the city’s black market. The deeper Jin delves into her double life, the more she learns about Susu’s own entanglement in a conspiracy more dangerous than she could have imagined.

As whispers swirl of the Avatar’s presence within the city’s walls, the Fire Nation creeps ever closer. With Ba Sing Se teetering on the brink of revolution, Jin must defy the powerful forces that control her city and risk everything for the friend she’s determined to save.

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Another Home Run for the Avatar Franchise

As a die hard fan of the Avatar-verse, I am always cautious when new material enters into the precious canon of the series I love so much. Thankfully, Judy Lin- as with F.C. Yee and Randy Ribay before her, has continued the streak of abating my fears! While I have mild quibbles with the pacing of the story and an overabundance of the “Small Star Wars Galaxy Effect” (where the same convenient cast of familiar faces and characters somehow always run into our otherwise obscure protagonist), this is a great story about Jin from S2E15 of ATLA (Tales of Ba Sing Se). Lin does an excellent job of taking the canvas that is Jin and painting an awesome “Untold Story” about the events before, during, and after that episode. It’s a great expansion on the lore of Ba Sing Se and its tumultuous occupation by forces domestic and foreign. And to top it all off, the official “Voice of Avatar” (at least, I hope she is and remains as such!) Nancy Wu makes a wonderful return to narrate this tale. Her narration highlight emotion and drama and pacing like no other and the brains behind the Avatar-verse better keep her around! I’m looking forward to more tales separate from the Avatars of the franchise and would be more than happy to see Judy Lin at the helm of those tales!

Jin finally git a story

I’ve been waiting forever to get more about Jin. She was such a minor character, but fans wanted the best for her. I’m glad to finally see she got her flowers… and a love interest it seems.

a more personal story

it's nice to have a story where the big bad isn't yet another apocalyptic threat, and it's nice to see some of the minor characters get some attention. not terrible, but I could have done with a few less cameos.

Amazing to see the little guy

It was amazing to see the war for ba sing sei from the little guys perspective I love Jin and her amazing cast of friends and family 

Good performance, but fairly weak riding

I’m not sure that this particular character warranted an entire novel, and I don’t feel that the first person perspective worked very well for Nancy Wu’s narration style.

I have thoroughly enjoyed most of the avatar books so far, but I think this one is the weakest. Certain segments felt particularly rushed and the pacing was a bit off. For instance, a very significant event was rushed through in the last 20 minutes of the book.

The writing itself also felt like fanfiction as opposed to an original creative work. The world of avatar is huge, and I think there are other, more interesting stories to tell.