Book: The Darkness in Vezendi

The Darkness in Vezendi (Slayers #6)
Hajime Kanzaka
Rui Araizumi (Illustrator)
Elizabeth Ellis (Translator)
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Jeez, some guys just can’t take “drop dead” for an answer! Here I am, beating up bandits and minding my own business, when all of a sudden my least favorite assassin jumps out of the woods. “Come to Vezendi. If you don’t... someone will die,” he says! Zuma’s one blast from the past I really didn’t need... But with a threat like that, I don’t have much of a choice about playing along for now. Good thing the whole group’s on board for this fun-filled, trap-laden, demon-driven ride! Darkness in Vezendi, here we come!

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Spoiler alert!

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Now that was unexpected. The true identity of Zuma? I totally didn’t see that. I wonder if this was part of the anime though. But what I’ve seen of the anime, I don’t think I’ve seen mention of Zuma before.

And apparently, the fight scenes do get pretty brutal. I totally wasn’t expecting to read about the injuries that Amelia sustained.

(Though coming to think of it back in book 2 or 3 there was mention of Lina’s legs being chopped off? I’m still trying to get my mind to wrap around that).

Soooo…. This was interesting enough. I also like that I’ve sort of tapered off from the anime back then, as now it doesn’t feel like I’m just reading something I’ve already seen. Everything I’ve read in this book (and the previous two I think) are perfectly “new” to me. But yet again, I do think the book can be better developed if it were a full-length novel and not a light novel.