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A review by aidnoah
Death Note: L, Change the World by M.
1.0
What can I say? This book was a huge disappointment. A waste of my $18 to buy it. It is a novelization of the Death Note spinoff movie of the same name… and it can hardly match Another Note at all.
The writing style leaves a lot to be desired. I haven’t seen the movie itself, but I can venture a guess that the book hardly does justice to the movie. Almost three chapters in, I found myself stumbling around in the dark, lost and confused about who is who and what is what. I was also wondering, in the back of my mind, where the Death Note-esque plot escaped to. It was leaning a bit more on Resident Evil with the “escaped virus” thing.
Not only that, but the scene changes are a little difficult to follow in the book as they might be in the movie. There isn’t any flow between them. L is also, in my opinion, very very VERY out-of-character, and that completely ruined its potential to be a good book. If you’re going to write for the Death Note universe, you have to make the characters stay in-character, or you lose the very thing that makes it so unique compared to other manga/anime series.
The writing style leaves a lot to be desired. I haven’t seen the movie itself, but I can venture a guess that the book hardly does justice to the movie. Almost three chapters in, I found myself stumbling around in the dark, lost and confused about who is who and what is what. I was also wondering, in the back of my mind, where the Death Note-esque plot escaped to. It was leaning a bit more on Resident Evil with the “escaped virus” thing.
Not only that, but the scene changes are a little difficult to follow in the book as they might be in the movie. There isn’t any flow between them. L is also, in my opinion, very very VERY out-of-character, and that completely ruined its potential to be a good book. If you’re going to write for the Death Note universe, you have to make the characters stay in-character, or you lose the very thing that makes it so unique compared to other manga/anime series.