Review:
In the world of this series, there is a sealed Evil God that periodically reawakens and threatens the world. Whenever that happens, six powerful warriors are chosen by the Spirit of Fate to go up against the Evil God. Each warrior is literally marked with a crest called the Crest of the Six Flowers. This should, theoretically, make it easy to tell who the six warriors are. Except that, this time around, there are seven people with crests, and now they're all locked in the same area together. Which one is the imposter?
This is one of those light novel volumes I've owned for years and only just got around to reading. By this point, certain volumes are now out of print, so if I wanted to continue with the series, I'd have to hope for library checkouts. A bigger issue is that the series seems to be on hiatus, with no new volumes released in Japan since 2015.
It took me a while to get into this. It definitely has an anime feel to it, with several character types I recognized from lots of other series. One of the characters wears armor literally designed to make it look like she had rabbit ears.
The writing didn't really work for me, but I did gradually get into the mystery. It looks, at first, like readers will get a basic answer for the "who's the imposter?" question in this volume, but the end of the volume adds an additional wrinkle that stretches things out into the next volume.
If the later volumes were all more readily available and affordable, if the series weren't on an indefinite hiatus, and if I weren't buried in a bunch of other light novel series I still need to try and/or finish, I might opt to continue this one. As it is, however, it's not good enough for me to want to make the effort.
Extras:
Four pages of beautiful full-color character portraits and black-and-white illustrations throughout.
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