Reader’s Reviews > The Secrets of Jane: Reborn > Status Update

This got boring, lots of exposition to explain stuff previously held back by author. They are leaving Skull Row because Cypress wants them too.
I’m taking a break for a non fantasy book. The first book wasn’t great but I devoured it. This isn’t that.

Jane is wanted because she’s a rare Cinder, like her mom (a person who can’t burn). Bad guys need her to go to Fire Isles and help God of Misery to be reborn. But why her? And why do they want this? Why do the people fighting this like Charles and Cypress know? Who is Kathleen for real. Why is Soren likable?

Ern, the barkeep from book 1 in her old town, was her father in disguise

Misery is also Morvock. He has a howler monkey and a pocket watch that point to calamity. Shade is working for them (who talked to Jane at the brothel), likely attacked Soren at the end of book 1. Bad guys are to beware of the rubies.

Prologue is Blackwells perspective. He is working with a dark god. Misery wants Basilisk dead, along with Tempest, and Soren. “Misery’s restoration will be the death of the Council, and I will be there to stand in their ashes with a crown on my head, like the pompous cunts in Belstead.” The Scorpion’s daughter’s first act is of service to Misery’s cause, whether she realizes it or not.