Vol. 1: Awakening ★★★★★
Vol. 2: The Blood ★★★★★
Vol. 3: Haven ★★★★★

What a beautiful, fantastic continuation of the series. I love how well-developed the world and lore in Monstress is, and I might have enjoyed The Blood even more than Awakening, if only because it featured less child torture/death (which is just a personal trigger of mine that I had to fight past to enjoy Vol. 1).

While there's less death of innocents in this volume, there's definitely still a ton of bloodshed, and we meet a lot of really cool new characters, with my favorite being the Shark-Arcanic named Old Tooth. I still loved spending time with the little fox and Ren (even if his motives are... questionable at times), and really enjoyed the backstory we got on Maiko and her mother, as well as the gods (who I find simultaneously fascinating and terrifying).