It's not bad. It's not bad at all. It's just that I have so many things I like even more than Cardinal Cross, things I'd rather read. Were my backlog or drive for nostalgia (re-reading a particular series right now) not so huge, I most likely would have finished it or at least read it for much longer than I did. But as things stand, as good as Cardinal Cross is, it's not good enough to trump pre-existing VN/book priorities.