This series has so many twists and reveals it tires me out just slightly more than it intrigues me.

And anytime I start to think I could almost let myself like this a bit, it goes and pulls some cheesy fan service. This time around they actually made up-skirt panty shots of a 15-year-old girl a critical plot point. Who does that????

I'm still on the fence about this series and may or may not pick up the next volume at the library if I see it there. At the very least, I would think I'll have forgotten all the many intricacies of this convoluted plot by the time another volume came out, but this one helpfully included a six-page recap, Maybe they plan to do that regularly until they're up to 90% recap and 10% new story by the final volume. ( )

The mystery/thriller side is fun, but everything else is cheesy and unnecessary (like all the panty shots; I now dock points for this). I don't think I'll continue. ( )