Godchild Vol 2

Dec 23, 2008 17:59

And this is why I love Kaori Yuki. Her characters say things like this:

You belong to me alone, so you must never get hurt without my permission. This belongs to me…the only hand that is allowed to tie my shoelaces.

Manor house mystery! Whee! Female who isn’t Mary Weather living and not being evil! Whee!

Flashback of Hargreaves whipping Cain in what appears to be a bed of roses and saying he’s branding him as God branded the biblical Cain to cleanse him of his sins. WTF?

And there is a Parrot of Doom. I have heard of it, and was wondering when it would appear. It drives people to suicide. It seems as random as Riff suddenly appearing 2/3 through the book with it as the answer to the mystery. Just as I was noticing that Riff hadn’t been around in this volume.

And there is another creepy child in the form of Emile, the self-mutilating 10~-year-old who captures butterflies and in love with his step-sister. Are Mary Weather and Metatron the only non-creepy children children Kaori Yuki has ever created. Oh, and Raziel. If he counts. He probably doesn’t. Then there’s that whole not-really-his-fault stuff with Metatron…

Ok, is Mary Weather Kaori Yuki’s only non-creepy child?

Also, was Hargreaves’s main interest in that storyline adding to Cain’s angst? Did he really think Cain didn’t have enough angst? Also, where was Riff the whole time?

And why am I more concerned about bloodstained lump sugar being turned into jam overnight to hide evidence than anything else? (Blood. In. The. Jam.)

Finally, I am amused that Kaori Yuki felt she had to clarify that there were no incesty intentions for Cain and Mary Weather. Resulting in one set of siblings per series where we can be reasonably certain that neither sibling involved has that kind of sibling complexes. But plenty of other sibling complexes. (The others being Michael/*spoiler redacted* in Angel Sanctuary and Ian/*spoiler-redacted* in Fairy Cube. Hmm…maybe also Metatron/Sandalphon. That one I dunno about…)

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