Review: The Last Contract of Isako by Fonda Lee

I rather like the front cover illustration for The Last Contract of Isako. It was done by Thomas Walker as per the Acknowledgements section of the book. Isako won’t do it. Maybe it’s vain, but she doesn’t care; she’s going to die with long hair. It’s impractical, it costs her time and money, but everyone’s got to have personal principles. Her hair is the only thing defying the pace of aging that afflicts the rest of her. It’s still thick and glossy, a black so pure that Tai used to say it was nearly blue. Tai loved her hair. He used to run his hands through it, bury his face in it, stroke it after they made love. page 84 Table of ContentsWhy The Last Contract of Isako?The BookWorldbuildingStructure & PacingCharactersConcluding Thoughts Why The Last Contract of Isako? I read the first book in Fonda Lee’s Green Bone Saga series Jade City back in the summer of 2025 and it was one of my books of the year. So when I found out that Fonda Lee was coming out with another book this year, I put…