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Nasu Yukie: Flower Destroyer

I don't really like this series. It may have something to do with how I read the sequel (Dark Age) before this one, I'm not sure. Or maybe it's just because the protagonist is boring and the other characters don't have personalities.

... I like Nasu Yukie. I swear.

The plot is time travel and super powers and vaguely SF. A flower is discovered inthe future in outer space and it's discovered that it gives people who smell it supernatural powers. A girl who smelled some runs away and bring some to the present, where our protagonist accidentally smell it. She's later hired by the time police to assist in weird trouble. Um. I can't really think of more to say, because I can't be bothered to re-read this.

Also included is an early short-story by Nasu called Yukionna (roughly, "snow maiden".) I had heard lots of good things about this one, and I was looking forward to being awed, but because my expectations were so high I couldn't stop simulating in my head what this story was about and how it would end, and I figured it out about halfway through and thereby spoiled myself. It probably didn't help that I had just read Lafcadio Hearn's Yukionna a few weeks ago ... I mean, Nasu couldn't have ended this story like in Hearn's version, so she had to go for the other option. So much hate for myself.

Category: Shojo/ladies | Posted by Alicia at November 30, 2004 06:04 PM

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