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Overview
Can love survive?
It's winter, and a bitter chill of desperation has settled over Miki and Hiro. Far from home, the young couple treks through the frozen north, with Akuzu's powerful agents hot on their trail. Miki knows they are determined to tear her and Hiro apart.
But she has different plans.
With the help of an unlikely ally, Miki and Hiro endure a daring journey, battling freezing conditions and frightening forces just to be together. Miki is certain they can make it, hoping that love really does conquer all.
Editorials
KLIATT
AGERANGE: Ages 12 to 18.In the final volume of this quartet, young lovebirds Miki and Hiro are making their heart-pounding escape from the Deliverers. Camping in the harsh winter climate with supplies running low, they try to make their way to a waiting ship that promises to carry them to safety. When the pair is unexpectedly betrayed, they end up in the grasp of the Deliverers. Hiro faces life-shattering repercussions, and Miki’s fate lies in the balance. When the Deliverers choose for her, she must fight to regain control of her own life. Crilley has provided an ultimately satisfying end to this series. Following the path of the seasons, teen readers will welcome the fresh take on the birth--and the death--of love and those who are in the world to protect it. Miki is a strong, dynamic female character, who is both headstrong and naïve, creating a pleasing blend of easily relatable traits. Crilley’s manga-inspired art will be an easy sell to shojo fans. With only four volumes and no objectionable content, this series is highly recommended for most school and public libraries. Reviewer: Jennifer Sweeney
March 2008 (Vol. 42, No.2)
School Library Journal
Gr 7 Up -The final volume of the series reveals the reasons behind Miki's crash through a window at the very beginning of the first volume, Miki Falls: Spring (HarperTeen, 2007). Readers are returned to that moment of tension, when the teen has chosen to flee-possibly causing herself great physical harm-rather than give in to the demands of the Deliverers. Hiro and Miki are hoping to start life outside the confines of the Deliverers' Rules. But just as they are on the cusp of success, all seems lost once again. Crilley does not allow his characters to take the easy way out, and Miki's stubbornness remains her constant virtue: she is unwilling to give up on her love, which she knows to be true, no matter what. The author makes ample use of panel styles, letting the art flow beyond panel boundaries and across pages, including one gorgeous spread. He makes excellent use of the space, sometimes allowing one panel to flow at the bottom of two pages with storytelling panels above it, often allowing bits of the art, faces in particular, to overlap from one moment to the next. Teens will find much in Miki to admire, and they will identify with a happy ending achieved only at a great price.-Alana Abbott, James Blackstone Memorial Library, Branford, CT