As one of the reviewers noted it is exquisite how author managed to capture the despair of people separated from their families by wall and sent out to concentration camps from which they manage to escape with great losses.

And then they are given limited set of vaccines by masked persons - what happens is truly devastating and heart breaking. These scenes and village episode are truly something that made this book very emotional for me.

Kenji is back and I gotta say book seems to take the path of rock opera. I hope this will not be the case because.... I do not know...... but again it would be fitting ending to something that started as child game...... so who knows .........

Art as always is beautiful.

Highly recommended. ( )

I honestly have no idea where things are going from here, and I like that. ( )

It's a brave new world that has such people in it, and now, after so many years, there's one I'm very happy to see again. I really believed he had died on that fateful night. Music truly does make the world go round. I can honestly say that my own spirits lifted by the end of this dark volume. ( )