Status Updates From Spirit Gate (Crossroads, #1)

This is going to be a hard one to rate the number of stars. There's no main characters but certain characters that we follow. We start reading in the land called The Hundred for a bit, then suddenly we're off the map down south in a psuedo-Chinese culture and we're with them for a long time until we're back in the Hundred a year or so after we left them and things are bad and getting worse.

I did a little squee when there was a reference to Jaran. The setting of this book must be on the other continent on the Jaran world (forget what it's called). Which is really cool because I was wondering if she was going to come back to that world.