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Written on Feb 5, 2018
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I think after reading this novel, I got a better grasp at what they’re aiming to do with that start in the anime, but once again I’m not here to compare between them. One of the things I will continue to be really glad about in this series is the background information Akatsuki Kana keeps on giving me whenever she takes me to a new location in her world, best thing about it this time? One of the locations I visit this time around has an aspect that been continuously mentioned whenever politics comes to play in this series and now I have a bigger form of understanding of a form of that aspect. I’m being incredibly vague here but I’m bound by the no spoilers rule.
Another interesting thing here is that the stories this time around weren’t just told by one time characters we’re most likely never going to see again, but it was concerning event we haven’t seen in the novel just yet by characters we’re already familiar with. Moreover, one of the chapters in the book gave me a whole vintage point to an event we’ve seen very briefly before but gotten an extended look into it this time around. These missing moments if you well were interesting because of the deeper looks into their personality it gave me and more importantly that other vintage point added more depth to different characters.
That being said, I believe that the way the chapters were ordered in this book is probably its weakest point. The concept of a “Light Novel” is that it has less words than what you’d typically find in a novel and it has fewer lengthier chapters to tell the tale. This one is obviously no different but again, the order didn’t work that well for me. A big somewhat obvious thing was confirmed in the beginning, but instead of continuing on discovering the consequences of that thing, we go back to Violet’s adventure before we’re finally back on that note the beginning left me with to finish off the book. This is a hassle to me, a simple reordering of the chapters would’ve been much much better.
Other than that small complaint, the book continues exploring the different forms of love. There is one here that was somewhat similar to chapter 2 of the first novel which is still my favourite of the bunch in the standalone chapters but Akatsuki Kana brings it in a different light that still makes it its own entity and not just a cheap ripoff of her earlier work.
The way this novel ends is basically an open end but it has enough going for it that you can somewhat see where it’ll end up in a little while which makes me somewhat disappointed that there wasn’t an epilogue somewhere in it but overall it was a very nice conclusion to the series. Will definitely keep an eye out on more stories by Akatsuki Kana-sensei and hoping for the best in that regard.
Final rating: 4/5