Variante 3
Posted: July 9, 2008 Filed under: Variante 2 Comments »Okay, things get much better in this volume. We finally have plot, which seems like it will play out through this volume and wrap up next volume.
There’s less emphasis on fighting this time, mostly because we’re starting to figure out why the chimeras exist. Because the main female character and the main male character are separated throughout the volume, and because both have now acquired this knowledge, they both sort of lose their will. Much is made of this, but at this point, I’m more interested in the promise of the two of them escaping, which is fine by me.
What else… I approve of the use of a parallel character that mirrors the main character’s situation. She sort of serves as a reminder as to what exactly will happen when the main character stops being useful. It’s pretty horrible.
I still don’t think the series is that good, or very entertaining, but at least I like it a lot better now.
I think I’m glad I stopped reading this after the first volume. It sounds like it got better, but not enough for me to feel bad about skipping the rest of the series :)
I have a hard time stopping series I don’t like once I start them, but I wouldn’t have missed out on much if I’d passed over this one entirely, I think.