Started off a little slow. There was some building up of a minor (but important) character’s character, and some of what I felt was rehashing of events from the previous works. After that, though, woo-hah. Things picked up, more connections were made between existing characters and events, and the suspense-o-meter went through the roof – I think my heart was racing by the time I was done the book.

One other quibble – I’m not sure the translation’s all it could be; in one or two places, I think phrasing was off and/or the order of the speech bubbles (when one person was talking) was flipped within a panel, which is funny, since we are going from a right-to-left book to another right-to-left book. Ah well, nothing disastrous.

The minor slowdowns and recaps are getting a little annoying – I feel like in the end I’ll be saying that the 18 instalments would’ve been better as 12-15 or something, but the new content in each book more than makes up for it. I need some sort of mega collection of these things.