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A review by moirwyn
Beasts of Abigaile Vol. 2 by Spica Aoki
5.0
This review originally appeared on my blog, Books Without Any Pictures:
http://bookswithoutanypictures.com/2018/01/28/beasts-of-abigaile-vols-1-2/
In Volume 2 of Beasts of Abigaile, we get to see more of the side characters and to learn more about the history of Ruberia. The first book went into the human’s fairytale stories about the island. This one tells it from the luga perspective, and it’s pretty dark.
The volume starts out when Nina and Roy are being punished. They are forced to wait on the humans at one of their parties, and Nina sees her friend Poe being forced to cage fight against wolves to entertain them. Poe is a gentle soul and an artist, but he’s rejected by all of the luga. Nina’s the only one who shows him any kindness, and she’s horrified by what she sees. But standing up for Poe means risking her place in the luga hierarchy, and making herself vulnerable. It also means learning more about how the luga were enslaved, and about the hope that many of them still carry for a better world.
Meanwhile, the love triangle continues, with Roy as the aggressive macho-guy and Gilles as the more subtle type who helps Nina keep her secrets and fit into luga society. Both Roy and Gilles start to get some more character depth in this volume, and there’s more to both of them than their first impressions.
One thing that I really like in both of the books that I’ve read thus far is the worldbuilding. The author gives you just the right amount of information–enough to feel immersed in the world, but not so much that you get bogged down in the details. It feels very natural, and readers learn about things at about the same pace as the main character.
Volume 3 isn’t going to be released in the US until March, and I am impatient. I want to binge-read this series but it isn’t done being translated yet. Life is so unfair! XD
http://bookswithoutanypictures.com/2018/01/28/beasts-of-abigaile-vols-1-2/
In Volume 2 of Beasts of Abigaile, we get to see more of the side characters and to learn more about the history of Ruberia. The first book went into the human’s fairytale stories about the island. This one tells it from the luga perspective, and it’s pretty dark.
The volume starts out when Nina and Roy are being punished. They are forced to wait on the humans at one of their parties, and Nina sees her friend Poe being forced to cage fight against wolves to entertain them. Poe is a gentle soul and an artist, but he’s rejected by all of the luga. Nina’s the only one who shows him any kindness, and she’s horrified by what she sees. But standing up for Poe means risking her place in the luga hierarchy, and making herself vulnerable. It also means learning more about how the luga were enslaved, and about the hope that many of them still carry for a better world.
Meanwhile, the love triangle continues, with Roy as the aggressive macho-guy and Gilles as the more subtle type who helps Nina keep her secrets and fit into luga society. Both Roy and Gilles start to get some more character depth in this volume, and there’s more to both of them than their first impressions.
One thing that I really like in both of the books that I’ve read thus far is the worldbuilding. The author gives you just the right amount of information–enough to feel immersed in the world, but not so much that you get bogged down in the details. It feels very natural, and readers learn about things at about the same pace as the main character.
Volume 3 isn’t going to be released in the US until March, and I am impatient. I want to binge-read this series but it isn’t done being translated yet. Life is so unfair! XD