For most of the first half the characters are insufferable in their twee superiority. They are SO intelligent and SO sophisticated that life among normals is a burden. I wasn’t convinced of the friendships that develop, they seem too fast and easy. There was little time to develop unspoken understanding that we are told they have. The middle part was most convincing and needed more time spent on it. The abbreviated version left the story flat. I was disappointed with the ending as uncreative and it providing an inadequate resolution for most of the characters. The ending presented is too dramatic to just end where it does without examining the impact it has on the characters continuing arc. Does Paloma revert to her former ways? That we have no hints as to what impact it will have on Kakuro is disappointing. A “three years later” epilogue could have been used to complete the story.