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The Earl & the Fairy, Volume 4 by Ayuko

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_moonniji_'s review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

smnthynzr's review

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adventurous dark

3.5

I would give this overall series about a 3.5 because it felt so incomplete. I still have so many questions (such as the tongue tattoo, Prince in general, Raven's spirit thing) and I would have loved to see more of Lydia being a fairy doctor.

coffeedragon's review

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3.0

I cannot believe this is how this mini-series ends, felt incomplete. If it was going to end so soon I think it should have been cut off soon after he becomes earl. Adding more adventures after that made it feel like there was something else.

Then there's Edgar mentioning he's managed to stop her from leaving for the moment, like, I want to see more! haha

Some things I felt were left unsolved: does she end up leaving eventually or not? Do they meet Prince? Will she be targeted again? Does Edgar move on with his life or is he still kind of set on revenge?

Then there was Raven, I'm curious about him having faerie blood and what about that spirit he has inside? There was mentions of a curse Prince put on them, what happened with that?

vampyldy's review

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emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

heyjudy's review

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4.0

~3.5/5
[Also available on my blog.]

This was a pretty nice ending to the series. It got a bit (only a bit, not overly so) intense there for a while.

So, the last book ended with Lydia being locked up in some abandoned warehouse, and… Um, she finds that she’s not the only one there, and then Nico shows up, and then Edgar and Raven show up. They find out something much darker is going on, and Edgar has a big confrontation with Rosalie (which was great), and… some other stuff happens until the case is solved. I don’t want to ruin everything, since this is the last volume, so I’m not going to go into any more details on that.

The final fight, or whatever, scene was a little anticlimactic, which was a bit disappointing. It’s just… so much was worked up to it, and then it just kind of happened, there wasn’t some big move to do it, Edgar and Lydia barely even had any part in bringing that plot to a close. It seemed a little like not a lot of effort or thought was put into it, like maybe the author only had a certain amount of pages to work with, and she’d already used up so much. But maybe that’s just me.

The romance actually had a rather satisfying end, in my opinion. There were some sweet scenes between Lydia and Edgar, and while there wasn’t any kissing or real confessions or anything, they’re friendly with each other and are going to continue working with each other, and it’s at least hinting that something is probably going to happen in the future. Of course, I wouldn’t mind seeing any of that, but it’s a pretty good end for the two, considering; this didn’t seem like the type of manga that would have had some big confession or over-the-top romantic scene, anyway, so what happened was good for me.

Given my mediocre feelings toward most of the series prior to this book, I would say that this was a rather good ending, especially since I even upped the rating about half a star. This was a very nice ending to the series; I’m happy with it.