Book: The Silver Beast

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The Silver Beast (Slayers #5)
Hajime Kanzaka
Rui Araizumi (Illustrator)
Elizabeth Ellis (Translator)
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Sure gotta love bandits, huh? One minute you’re just whaling on ’em for some quick cash and stress relief, and the next thing you know, your magic’s been sealed! With Gourry and Amelia at my side, it oughta be easy enough to track down the lady responsible for all this and set things straight, right? Too bad our destination’s a town full of Dark Lord cultists and werebeasts. Oh, and we all manage to get separated... Maybe this self-styled “mysterious priest” guy can help me out. They never have ulterior motives, right? Right?!

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! Possible Spoilers !

I actually was worried that I was starting to find it a bore to read the series (by book 4), but, this book 5 has revived things up pretty nicely, and I'm itching to read the next instalment already!

There are parts which I hoped could have been elaborated more... such as the backstory of Mazenda and how she got involved with the Klotz group. Also, I thought Lina's disability would be a bigger feature since it happened, but the resolution was rendered to merely a background story....

I really think the Slayers books can have so much more potentially if they were proper novels and not light-novels. There's so much happening that's just being skimmed through.