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4.02 AVERAGE
4.02 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
funny
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Not a genre I typically go for but it was a fun read. It kept the original style of death note while being more of a traditional detective story.
challenging
dark
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
I'm actually a big fan of the way this is written. I know a lot of people don't like the fact that Mello is the narrator but his style of talk matches with what I want the tone to be for the book. I can see Mello coveting the story and not wanting to write it down until he pretty much knows that he's probably going to lose his life due to his recklessness and that Near's reservedness will probably allow him to live long enough to be able to read the book after it's "found".
The mystery isn't so much the important part as the learning about BB's character. There's an interesting concept surrounding BB's life: the desperation of wanting to beat L, the horror of having shinigami eyes and the numbness of the reality of being so often confronted with death. The mystery itself is fun, and if you haven't heard of a lot of the tropes it is a genuinely intriguing mystery. But overall, I like the book, it adds to the universe and it's a general fun read that I keep coming back to.
The mystery isn't so much the important part as the learning about BB's character. There's an interesting concept surrounding BB's life: the desperation of wanting to beat L, the horror of having shinigami eyes and the numbness of the reality of being so often confronted with death. The mystery itself is fun, and if you haven't heard of a lot of the tropes it is a genuinely intriguing mystery. But overall, I like the book, it adds to the universe and it's a general fun read that I keep coming back to.
Rereading this in 2022, I’m not really sure if I liked it. But I do think this book is neat in how it plays with the reader’s expectations in a manner that only works because the story is in a non-visual medium. Of course it relies on the reader already being familiar with the main series, but I can’t imagine many people would read this if they are not already a fan.
adventurous
challenging
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
dark
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
mysterious
slow-paced
I honestly hated this. As a fan of Death Note, I had high expectations and was severely let down. My first gripe was the contant use of "...". I counted 38 times. And the use of the R slur, as someone who is autistic it really puts me off especially with how it was used.
dark
funny
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I realized that I’m not the greatest Death Note fan anymore, but I wanted to read Another Note for completionist reasons, and I wanted to see more of L. I originally gave it three stars but looking back at this light novel now, it feels more like two stars since there was barely anything I liked about it.
The plot is a simple murder mystery plot. Former FBI agent Naomi gets the mission to figure out who the murderer in the BB murder series is. Kinda unvoluntary, she gets the help of a guy called Ryuzaki. Those characters are all connected to the main series of Death Note. The mystery was okay, I guess. The pacing was not the greatest which can be seen in the fact that one third of the story is spent in one room where the characters just combine things which became boring quickly. Some of the conclusions they make are quite out of the blue as well. The only thing I really enjoyed about this light novel was the twist towards the end that Ryuzaki was not L but Beyond. His motive was interesting as well, same goes for the fact that he has the eyes of a Shinigami . But besides this, I was not really interested in the solution of the mystery.
The writing style was okay, and the emotions of the characters were portrayed well. There were some things I found a bit weird though, for example how Naomi speaks her thoughts out loud so that the readers can hear them too. The book also sends some weird messages with sexism at some points and emphasizing a character looking through the underwear of a 13-year-old girl, urgh.
Naomi was treated so badly in this novel. I liked her in the main series but she’s terrible here. She’s so judgmental and just rude towards L; at one point she says that she would rather kill herself than look like him, wtf. Talking about L, his characterization is okay. It was a bit annoying that every sentence had to emphasize what a genius he is, even if he’s just able to read Roman numbers.
Fans of the Death Note series and edgy 13-year-olds that like creepypastas – I can say that; I was one of those once – will likely enjoy Another Note but it’s nothing for me anymore.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Self harm, Suicide attempt, Murder, Fire/Fire injury
Moderate: Body horror, Gun violence, Misogyny, Violence