I'm so very sad.
This is the final book of the Akio series and, although it delighted me, educated me, and kept me reading for far too many hours, I still feel that I could have read more.
Akio, being a favourite character of mine, was a mystery, wrapped in an enigma, when I first read about him, but Charles Tillman has done an epic job of bringing him alive for me, and answered a lot of the questions that I'd asked myself about him, when I first became aware of him.
It's always sad to say goodbye to characters that you'd lived with for some time, and the Akio books are brim full of amazing, likeable, crazy, sweet, and saucy ones, that had me falling in love with them daily.
The only thing that makes this parting bearable, is that I can meet them again when I next read through these books!
How I wish that there were people like this in my life 🙂