Land of Silver Rain 6
Posted: December 20, 2007 Filed under: Land of Silver Rain Leave a comment »Because this series is turning back into a fantasy for the end, I’m enjoying it a lot more. Much of the expected things happen here as far as final outcome goes. For instance, Misty-Rain starts to come around and realize how much Sirius means to her, Hanbit realizes Misty-Rain is a real person… stuff like that. Bounty hunters come from the magical world and try to collect Sirius for the Unicorn kingdom, and the Sea Witch also makes an attempt on Sirius.
There’s a pretty typical camping trip involved, but it seemed okay at this stage in the series because Sirius was pretty much on his way out of the human world, one way or another, and it was sort of a farewell with all his friends. During the camping trip, Sirius and Misty-Rain run into Thornpricker and the small group is attacked. Most of the last third of the volume is a pretty epic battle where the Sea Witch tries to take Sirius and make him use the third potion which binds him to her forever. The battle isn’t fantastic, but it is pretty epic.
There’s some stuff which doesn’t make sense with the bounty hunters in the earlier part of the volume… Sirius has to hide, from them and move from place to place, and eventually winds up taking Misty-Rain with him so that the bounty hunters don’t exploit her as a weakness for him. Misty-Rain doesn’t really like this, and it strains their relationship once again.
Basically, this volume is loads better than what’s been going on the past few volumes. I believe this is due solely to the fact that it’s not trying to be a comedy anymore, and I really much prefer it this way.
