Published by TokyoPop
Slugline: Dinah grows stronger while Vincent becomes more uncertain as they confront more of the tests of the Mausoleum.
This volume suffers from the problem of many middle parts of a story: after the introduction, you need to set the pieces in motion for the finale, and there some scenes in here that are basically for setting up later scenes, or that are left as open questions with the intent of being resolved later.
But there are some changes, mostly as the characters, especially Dinah, develop. Dinah seems to progress to being more assertive and stronger, putting more of her darkness behind her, though she does regress here and there in the story. Vincent doesn't change much in comparison, but since Dinah has, different aspects of his personality emerge. His protective urge, which Dinah appreciated and even needed in the first volume, has started to become a liability by the end of the second.
The art continues to be one of the strongest aspects of the title, capturing the gothic atmosphere, though I still wish at times the lines were a little stronger, so scenes seem more real, at least outside of the dream worlds that the characters visit.
- Ferdinand
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