Why? 
 Why? 
 This was worse than even the in-betweener short stories that sometimes pop up between the normal novels. I keep reading because when the action scenes aren't erotic, there's great mystical bloodsplatter. When Mrs. Hamilton likes to do plot, it's fun sometimes quite impressive, even in the later novels. No. Scratch that. Some of the best plots have come from the later novels. 
 As long as I'm not forced through another 400 pages of group sex with characters I've barely been introduced to. 
 Again. 
 It's the whole concept of filler in anime, where you enjoy the manga so much and then there's a hundred anime filler episodes that are nothing but fluff and air to wait for the artist to catch up with the tv production crew. Can erotica be nothing but empty filler? You bet it can. 
 I would like to say that I'm going to swear off reading the next books, but I won't. I'll just pray they're full and ripe with mystical goodness and take the lumps as they come. 
 It's hard to turn off being a long time fan.