Jade Legacy

This series has an amazing concept. A crime family and their survival in a world where certain people get superpower if they have jade on them. Cool, hm? And it was!
Though some of the choices made my the author weren't my favourite. First, about the good things.

The lore of this is insane. All the things that happen will somehow make perfect sense. There is a lot and none of it is just added for extra padding, it all connects incredibly neatly. If anything, this could have been expanded into infinity. Which is exactly why I'm surprised it's just a trilogy. Granted, especially this last one is very very long, but at the same time, urban fantasy seems to have mostly long series with many books in them.
Like the world, the characters are great. This is a story where having multiple points of view is not only well done (they all sound separate, they all have their proper motivations and world views), but it's necessary. The politics of the world are so complicated, you can't cover all of it with just one person. Especially with such strong characterisation. The people never felt like they were acting out of character, which, to me, was especially great with Hilo. To me he started out as a charismatic popular dude who was just incredibly cool. Yet he is petty, moody, not always the nicest person and often short-sighted, but so easy to like. One of the best things about this was the way he was written, honestly.
The city of Janloon is a character in itself as well, it's development through the decades of the story.

Which also brings up my biggest issue with it. So many time skips. For the politics, it was necessarily to see through many decades; it's perfectly logical that these things happen slowly. No Peak makes a decision to do something thing, like invest in business in a different country. The results aren't seen in months; they will obviously need years to play out.
But also, the actual humans doing these things don't live in a world where time doesn't pass for them. Many of the important character developments happen off screen and they are glossed over. Maybe we see a tiny sliver of them, but then we get told real quick what happened in a marriage in 5 years. Hell, he get a brief introduction of one character with one of the old timers, then skip, we get told this person is in a years long relationship with another. Excuse me?? Am I supposed to CARE?
This is why a lot of stressful scenes are only meaningful when the few main characters are involved; I got told this new character is important, but the things that make them so were skipped.
Which is sad, because some of the big scenes we saw were absolutely great, like when Niko returns to go to Ru's funeral.

All in all, I did like the series. I enjoyed the story, I enjoyed most of the characters. The action was really nicely done, just like the politics. But I wish it would have been given more space. Selling a long series is probably hard, not sure if a publisher is willing to buy it, so it was possibly a sacrifice made for marketability, to be possibly for this story to be told at all. I don't know. But there was enough substance here to let it properly breathe and run its course.
It's a great series and an imperfect one and that's fine. I just wonder if, after this, the author will write something that is given enough room for her grand concepts and complicated storytelling.