七夜物語 中

Sayo and Honoda return to the Night World, but separately. They are each confronted with a personal issue which they had not realized or admitted to themselves. Sayo meets her parents in their younger days, and Honoda changes roles with the “good at everything” boy from his class. This first half felt a bit slow to me, but there was a lot of character growth in this section.

The middle of the book gets livelier when Sayo and Honoda are brought into a new night where ordinary objects come alive, and they have to face the ウバたち who give life to objects.

This volume ends in a way that feels proper for a second book in a trilogy, unlike volume 1. It builds to a big event and there is a climax, and yet the main issue remains to be dealt with in volume 3.