A review by libralita
East of West, Vol. 4: Who Wants War? by Jonathan Hickman

5.0

I enjoyed this book more than the last one. I enjoyed the bits with Death and Xiao, I like their romance but apparently they’re never seeing each other again so that sucks. I’m super worried about Babylon because the evil Balloon is starting to teach him to become a killer. He’s such a sweetie and now he’s going to bring the end times. I also liked the bits with the Ranger or Thomas. He’s probably my favorite character, he has such good lines. Plus he actually has morals unlike Chamberlain.

“That’s right. Because all of those things just had the illusion of matterin’…But no lies last start of war—it’s like wakin’ up from a dream. War is the great cruible where men make their own destinities—become heroes of villains—are remembered or forgotten.”

This is a really great Thomas line.

So Chamberlain named his niece Constance Lee his Chief of Staff. I like her already.

So Babylon sees everything nice and pleasant as horrific and dead, while he sees everything horrific and dead as nice and pleasant. Weird.

Balloon: Where’d you get the demon?
Orion: Cheveyo summoned it from the plain and I grew it as an arm.
Balloon: Hmmm. Sounds painful.

I love the humor, too.