Her style continues to enchant, and her characters are intriguing. I feel like authors should know which characters will be central to their story from the beginning, and use them as POV characters from the start so they won't be introduced so suddenly later in the story. It was necessary to bring her in to tell all the angles of the story, but to bring her in so close to the end of the story feels clunky. Hearn brings in a new point-of-view character here, Shizuka, which felt odd to me. Given that the last book ended on a cliffhanger of an ending, none of this is a surprise. Their stakes have risen, and the plots against them are circling closer, as we enter the third act of the saga. The plots are complex enough to keep a reader engaged, but the real focus of the books have been the two main characters and their relationship. Tales of the Otori has been about Takeo and Kaede, first and foremost.
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