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可能中学生会喜欢吧，不太适合中年人读

或许我在16岁的时候会喜欢读这样的小说，现在好像40岁了，情节对我来说有点无聊，我是边听有声书边看书来阅读的，但最后的几章还是感觉到无聊。

Loved it

The book is a bit cliché but really beautiful. I intended to read this book just for the language learning and didn't expect to actually care a lot about the characters, but ended up emphasizing with them quite and lot and couldn't but help shed tears near the end. This book is going to stick around in my head for a while.

The fact that the book's story is very straightforward is actually really helpful for language learning. I couldn't understand quite a few sentences per page but was still able to follow along just fine. Sentences can get quite lengthy and introspective, but improving my sentence parsing ability is the main reason I picked the book so I didn't mind.

Not my cup of tea

The characters felt kind of plain and the end left me with a feeling of uncompleteness (I mean, we spend the whole book expecting her to die from cancer for her to get killed in the middle of the street, and no one bats an eye?????). I do prefer more mature stories and this is really just a high school novel, so I didn't have high expectations but still the story felt boring at times and I really struggled to read some of the scenes.

As for language learning, this is the 9th novel I read since I started reading Japanese books a year ago, so I didn't find it has hard as I expected. It has some N2 grammar and some more specific words towards death (I will not forget 遺書)　and sickness, but nothing too difficult.

loved this book

The story is beautiful. It is a little cliche with the whole "girl appears out of nowhere and changes protagonist", but you aren't thinking about that when reading this. Characters were all meaningful.

Spoiler (do not click as includes major spoilers): The only big issue I had with the story is that Sakura is killed by someone and then nobody seems to really care? I feel like people would react differently if someone they are friends with/love is stabbed to death by someone.

The vocabulary in this book is normal and there is no tricky wordplay or anything that will be confusing.

10/10 book

the story is very cliche and the characters aren't that well made but overall it's cute, the second half makes up for the first

It's very obviously a teen novel in many ways, but that is part of what makes it cute

Not bad, but hard for me to get through

The main girl in the story embodies the trope of the "manic pixie dream girl" more than I expected and maybe that's why I feel like the story felt a little shallow and predictable at times.

I found the story a little hard to get through. Perhaps it was for the story reasons above, but it may also be due to some long sentences, or the standoffish attitude of the protagonist which made it difficult to follow his thoughts. The story was also a little more introspective than I prefer.

There is also a anime and live-action movie adaptation of this novel. This is a rare case in which I recommend the live-action as a better adaptation than the anime. The anime is a straightforward adaptation while the drama adds some more compelling storylines original to the movie and has better acting in my opinion.

Unexpectedly shallow story but great for language learning

• Entertainment: I loved また、同じ夢を見ていた by the same author, so maybe I expected too much, but there wasn't as much to this story as I was hoping. Except for a little twist towards the end, you know exactly how this book will play out already after the first 10 pages or so. I really expected there to be a little more depth, but maybe this book's target audience is younger than I thought. The male lead is also way more antisocial than your typical "Japanese high school loner"-main character and the story in general did not feel very realistic, which made it difficult to feel with the characters.

• Language Learning: For someone at ~N2 this should be absolutely manageable. The sentences are slightly longer but the grammar is very easy. The first quarter of the book felt more difficult to me, but once you get used the the author's way of writing, it becomes surprisingly easy. The vocabulary is not for complete beginners, but at ~10K words in Anki this felt close to comfortable. There are several easy to understand metaphors. Don't read it as a complete beginner, but after ~15 easier books this felt just right.

Wattpad fanfic vibes with horrible characters

For a book about the importance of human connection the characters are actually insufferable.

The book insists on hammering the fact that Sakura is truly a social butterfly and a natural at human connection but she just steamrolls the mc and actively causes misunderstandings that result in him being more isolated from his peers. She (and the other side characters) are flat and boring with the only characteristics they actually show being obnoxiousness and selfishness. The story is essentially just the mc who is a bit unconventional but content being bullied until he changes his personality imo

The twist toward the end made absolutely no sense and destroyed any sort of meaning the author was working toward. It feels as though the author just wanted to take all the classic elements of a sad ya romance story and slapped them together clumsily. This did not read like an actual novel but more like a wattpad manic pixie dream girl self-insert story.

In terms of language level I’d say it’s N2 with no particularly difficult grammar points. The few difficult vocab words tend to be repeated so all in all it is a simple read

Sick lit with a manic pixie dream girl...

...and an autistic MC? (I can't read him as anything but. The MC does not dislike people, he just literally doesn't know how to related/connect to them.)

I don't mind books about people dealing with illness, but if the whole point of the illness is to have an easy plot twist and to force character development, it's annoying. Also: the last third of the book was completely unnecessary, boring blah blah.

I recommend the movie over the book. I found the movie much easier to stomach.

I think the audiobook is great, though, and the female voice actor is great at making the female MC sound as obnoxious as the story makes her out to be.

From audiobook version... (mostly)

I don't like female lead's voice in the beginning. Also, how she acts. Also, how male lead's name is censored.

But it ends well, I think, probably.

For a book generally aimed at young adults, it strikes a nice balance between its tragic and hopeful elements. The exploration of the two main character's differing worldviews, and how they ultimately come together to form a thesis on living one's life to the fullest, was well done. But it's sad! This is a good read for someone who wants to shed a few tears.

This book felt appropriately ~N2 level. Mostly familiar grammar, without too much difficult vocabulary. The sentences and structure were straightforward, and didn't take a lot of getting used to.

I fucking cried, this hurts

I feel like we all know this kind of sad story and we've seen similar characters before so this could maybe not work for everyone. But something about how this builds up and about the way the characters need each other this story always gets me.

I cried for full on 2 hours during the last 20% of the book. It also lead me to think about life and death, the importance of the moment and the importance of human relationships.

Language wise it was useful, somtimes I found the sentences to be a bit confusing for me tho, so not easy but a good read.