the misadventures of weather boy

Well, it's time

Today the second volume of Twelve Kingdoms, Sea of Wind, has its street date (it's $11.55 at Amazon, $12.74 at Right Stuf, and $13.59 at Barnes & Noble (online), with a $16.99 MSRP). My copy is scheduled to arrive Friday, but based on the way things have played out before, it may get here Thursday if I'm lucky.

I have a feeling though that some people will be disappointed at the turn in the story; the second book is about Taiki (referred to in passing in book 1) instead of Yoko. And while I too am eagerly anticipating this volume, I do want to be careful not to be too eager--while book 1 was very good, the story had some pacing and unevenness issues.

I don't know yet when (or if...*sighs*) volume 3 comes out; Tokyopop isn't listing all of their dates for a series liked they used to on their old site, but as I recall it was planned for next March at about the same time. At the same time, I have to be concerned that it will never come out given Tokyopop's issues with certain other novels (I still have a 1 year old Kino no tabi volume 2 preorder [it's older than my niece!] sitting at Right Stuf). But this series is probably the last best hope for Tokyopop's novel franchise--if it goes bust, it's probably curtains for that venture.

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