The Twelve Kingdoms, Book 3: The Vast Spread of the Seas, by Fuyumi Ono. 43.
This novel, a prequel to book 2 (which was a prequel to book 1) is the origin story of two of my favorite characters from the previous novels, the suave king Shoryu and his grumpy kirin Enki (here called Rokuta
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I haven't blogged this yet because I was actually a little disappointed. I loved Enki's scenes in the first two books, and in this one, he seems to have been a Taiki-esque woobie. That's certainly not impossible, given that this is his past, but there didn't seem to be enough "how he got from point A to point B," personality-wise, for me.
I also don't know if I quite buy why the demon-rider was the way he was. Between those two factors, I spent a lot of time thinking "Huh? B-b-but ... ."
The artwork for these is brilliant. I hope the next comes out soon (although Tokyopop's site is useless for looking things up ... ).
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