August 26, 2023

Beautiful, beautiful book

As others have said, the story starts off as a slightly surprising high school romance (but luckily, the usual school gossiping etc was kept at an extremely low level). Then some events start kicking in... The end result is a beautiful story about pure love. In hindsight, I might have liked the book even better without the very last chapter. In my opinion, it did not add much to the main message and started veering a bit towards the kitschy end, which the author had pretty much avoided up until then. But I liked it nonetheless.

Language-wise, I thought it was written in a very good style. There were no annoying repetitions or shallow phrases. Nonetheless, important words were repeated often enough to make them stick, and truly difficult passages were rare. While there was lots of dialogue, it never became too slangy or too hard to follow who was talking etc. Overall, language-wise this should be a good pick for an intermediate reader.

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similar in difficulty toコンビニ人間L29