くまクマ熊ベアー 2

This book is much much better than the first one. You get to see Yuna fit into the world and interact with all the characters a lot more, and the situations are a lot less repetitive. At times it even covered some slightly darker subject matters. In the last half some of the alternate PoV chapters get used in more interesting ways than just redoing the exact same events from another perspective.

I'm a bit surprised people found the first half boring, personally I enjoyed seeing the setups from

Much better than book 1

This book felt much more interesting to read. And the plot much more natural. I liked all the extra characters and everything. Major plot stuff was like... kinda hand waved but this series isn't really trying to be a literary masterpiece. It's trying to be cozy and heartwarming and it succeeds. We get to see way more of Yuna's personality and other characters and it was very enjoyable.

Lots of repetition made it very good for language learning. I would say it was a bit harder than book one, but

Not as good as volume 1 but picks up

The first half of this volume drags a lot because of several chapters that retell the preceeding chapter from another character's perspective. Volume 1 did this a bit, but they were spaced out enough that it felt more like a recap, but in volume 2 most of the recaps come immediately after the chapter they're retelling, which made it a bit of a drag.

The book really picks up in the second half though, with Yuna using her talents to perform various acts of philanthropy and help out different char