14th november 
two more chapters of 3月のライオン vol 8! this bit was one of my favourite bits of the anime so it’s nice to go over it again. maths made its first appearance in suspect x, but thankfully only briefly
| emoji | book | pages read |
|---|---|---|
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3月のライオン vol 8 | 0-45 |
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lost judgment | 3rd girlfriend done and then just dice and cube and aircelios |
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容疑者Xの検診 | 96-110 |
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revenant gun | 408-finish |
today’s nhk article was this one (remembering a volcanic eruption) plus the entries on のなんのって and の無さ in aDoAJG
coming back to say i finished revenant gun and have mixed feelings.
revenant gun thoughts
i don’t think the plot or characters ever really recovered from the nine year time skip from the previous book, and as a result the emotional resolutions didn’t land the way i think they were supposed to. ninefox gambit was fantastic, and raven stratagem worked pretty well once it got going, but i’m struggling to come up with a saving grace for this one that the previous books didn’t already have. it introduces several things that go nowhere too, and withholds information about the final confrontation as if for some later reveal that just, doesn’t happen.
i want to like it. the characters are interesting, and there’s clear care put into establishing a world that feels lived in by several cultures (each with internal variety) and that has history which actively affects the characters lives. and the queerness! it’s normalised without losing significance and meaning for those characters who are queer (tho i would argue it falls down a bit in places? there’s enough going on i can forgive it).
but this book felt confused and underdeveloped. (i do still very much recommend ninefox gambit though, even on its own)