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(4.26/5)Goura, a young man who is constitutionally unable to read books, visits a secondhand bookstore to get an old family book assessed. The store’s beautiful but shy owner, Shinokawa, gives him an estimate of the value. Not only that, she reveals a hidden story behind the book’s history, and hires Goura to work at the shop. This is about the stories behind the old books brought in by people from all walks of life. It’s a series, but this first volume can be read as a stand-alone.
It’s written in the
Book flavoured mystery series
I read this as it was the monthly book in the The Moe Way's novel club.
This book contains several short mysterys; each centred around an old book. The stories do connect and there is a main story that flows throughout the book, so it isn't just a series of short stories.
It's a good read, but not a wise choice for your first book -- or first light novel/novel. There are easier works out there, I found my reading pace fell for this one as I needed to look up a lot of words. I read this befor
One of my all time favourites.
From start to finish, this book gave me the impression that not a single word was there just because. Every single little descriptive detail, every name, every choice of words did all, without exception, appear again at a later point with a much more profound meaning. Out of the whole book, special mention to the first chapter which is, in my opinion, without a doubt one of the best designed first chapters I've read, though maybe I'm a little biased.