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Death Note (Manga Cafe)
posted Aug 10th, 2009 by Alison - (Library Development Worker)
A very clever story, lots of action, but also involves your brain. Very enjoyable up to about volume 8, I got completely hooked very quickly and had to keep buying more books (the only series I've actually bought all of).
Great art, great characters and very original plot which keeps twisting and changing, it's very cleverly done. I was very keen to get to the end, but at the same time didn't want it to finish. However at around volume 9 that changed, it went downhill and I felt it was carrying on for the sake of milking a successful series when really it would have been better coming to a halt. Volumes 9-12 have brought down my rating from 5 stars. The ending was good when we eventually got to it, though there was some stuff tacked on after the real ending, I'm not sure what the point of that was, it was a real shame that it didn't stay at the high calibre of the first volumes.