ミモザの告白 2

This is the first book I've read in physical form, so I'm hesitant to comment too much on how difficult the vocab is, as looking up words is obviously less streamlined on physical media. I think it was about the same, if not slightly harder than the first volume? Felt like there were some new descriptive words.

I forgot to set this book as finished and give a review to it, and in the brief two weeks or so since finishing it I've forgotten a decent chunk of what happens in the book, which I think says a lot. I had to go and look at some reviews for a refresher. From memory: summer passes (with Ushio spending a lot of time at Kamiki's place because of her family situation), the trio go to an aquarium, Hoshihara and Kamiki take on responsibilities for the school festival, and Kamiki and Ushio star in their class' rendition of Romeo and Juliet. The class as a whole is accepting of Ushio after vol 1 so there's far, far less transphobia in this one (although it still exists), which made it a more pleasant read. I feel like the author could've done more with Ushio having been pressured into accepting the role of Juliet, but I'm just glad it didn't feel dragged out like the closing chunk of the first volume did.

Perhaps a complaint few will care about, but I felt like the illustrations were lacking in this one? There were some that I really liked and I thought were good places to add in illustrations, but others were totally pointless, and I'd much rather see our main trio than a meaningless illustration of side characters who were actually less important in this book than the first.

Personally, the final Hoshihara POV epilogue chapter really disappointed me. I kept reading it over and over again hoping that I was reading it wrong, and still kind of hope that when I inevitably pick up the third volume I'll find out that I was wrong, haha.

It's kinda just fine? I'll keep reading because I want to see Ushio get a happy ending.