Beautifully drawn. I just love the clothing the characters wear, such beautiful ornaments that contrast with all the blood and gore in the action scenes.

The story starts out a bit confusing and it took me a while until I got a handle on the cast. The main character is Maika Halfwolf, an Arcanic who is carrying some kind of „monstrous” entity inside her. When the hunger takes over and the thing wakes up... bad things happen...

Maika‘s friend Tuya never really shows up again. Instead Maika collects a small band of „allies“ most notably Master Ren, a cat, and a small fox-girl named Kippa who is so cute, loyal, innocent and wise... I can‘t get enough of her.

The world is explained in the lecture excerpts of Professor Tam Tam (a cat!) at the end of each chapter. Cats, children of Ubasti, are one of the 5 races in this world - obviously. That in itself already makes this worth reading ;)

The others are the Humans, the Ancients, the Arcanics (hybrids of the first two) and the Old Gods - represented by a Cthulu-oid mess of eyes and tentacles.

Opposing Maika is basically ... everyone. The monster she carries, the Arcanics, the Ancients and the Humans, mostly an order of witches called the Cumaea who are killing Arcanics to get at a substance called Lilium that apparently gives Humans some of the powers of the Arcanics. Most notable among the witches are Lady Yvette - who used to be a friend of Maika‘s dead mother - and the Holy Mother of the order along with her Inquisitrixes.

I also kind of like the raven-born knight Corvin who appears at the end and am hoping he might play a larger role. Is it because I like guys with wings?