F&B 12 (thoughts on ending)

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OK, I don't know who to blame for this (author, illustrator, editor?), but whoever decided to make the Vicente/Kaito kiss the last picture is just plain cruel and sadistic. I really, honestly thought that Kaito wasn't going to get away, that he was going to end up going back with Vicente, and I totally cried when Kaito said goodbye to Geoffrey. (As cheesy as those ridiculous hand signals were...-_-;;) I mean, I was totally expecting Kaito to sacrifice himself to save the others, and I was SO angry, but then when he got to his goodbye speech I was all, "Oh! Oh! ;_;" And I am still kind of in shock that Vicente let him go. (I actually felt bad for him! That's...really saying something, for me.) Although, in retrospect, he really had to let Kaito go, or he would have been chasing him for the rest of the series. Actually, at one point I wondered if he would end up helping Geoffrey and Nigel get Kaito back to England...that is probably a product of too much Avatar. orz Wait, Vicente = Zuko? Sacrilege!! D:

Raul was so...so...evil? badass? aweseome? (in a "Oh no he di'int!" kind of way) when he laughed and was all "You'll end up holding his cold corpse!" when Vicente realized that Kaito was dying. I kind of loved him then. XD Actually, I really loved a lot of the stuff between Vicente and Raul in this book. Though...I was definitely laughing at some parts that were not supposed to be funny. *cough* >.>

(Are we really not going to find out what happens to Vicente, though? That's a little sad.)

I find it interesting that, in the end, Kaito still seems determined to stay in the 16th century. It hasn't occurred to him to try and bring Geoffrey back with him? Also, from the author's notes, it doesn't sound like the next book is the last one. But...what else can happen?

How long until book 13? :(

ETA: Why would faeries use the Julian calendar?