江ノ島は猫の島である

Okayish story

Its a little story with some little adventures with a guy who moved to 江の島 and can suddenly speak to cats. Its not that deep, and the adventures are also okayish "fun". There is an overarching story which gets developed through the book, and that story is the most interesting part of the book. But the book in and of itself was quite the drag for me, I could'nt get myself motivated to read this book because it was quite boring for me. However, it has a ton of vocab, especially - surprise - cat

EDIT: Coming back to knock a star off. I’ve owned vol2 for ages and still haven’t read it. I never think back to this book like I do my other 5 star reads.

Protag quits his job after ~something~ happened and moves into his dead grandparents’ house in Enoshima, where he one day realises he can now understand cat speech. It’s basically structured into solving little cat related mysteries and problems. Each cat featured has their own unique speech style and distinct personality which is super fun.