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Title: not as bad as everyone says
Review: I read this fourth installment, regardless of the poor reviews as I couldn't NOT read it after reading the first three and having the 5th, the prequel, too. But I thoroughly enjoyed it and couldn't it put it down for the last third. And had exactly the same sense, that another reviewer mentions of, "how come there are so few pages left"? Except for the rushed ending, which may have been due to the fact that Hearn didn't want to add another 100 pages and perhaps was up against a deadline so couldn't go back and edit some things out, it was a wonderful book. Definitely slower than the first three, and I thought that the Kaede character especially was poorly depicted, especially being so different than she was in the earlier books. But it's still worth reading, particularly for the new characters, the children of the Otori.
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