I didn't like it either. The first one was the best as if had my two favourite characters in it (Lord Otori and Lady Maruyama), after they died, the stories just seemed to get less and less interesting. I'm not a huge fan of Kanae, though I like Yuki ^_^ I heard that there are going to be more book soon... Not about Takeo, of course, but about someone else. Probably his daughter or something.