January 18, 2023

Content warnings: explicit sex scenes, suicide

This book is about a young man who graduates from college but is unable to find a job during the new grad job application time frame, and is put in a very tight spot. He needs to support his family (there are circumstances putting them in bad spot financially), but part time job wages likely won't be enough. However, he's approached by a man scouting him for a host club, which promises high wages but is also part of the darker night life scene.

This book was a very fast and fun read. I had to look up a good deal of words (so expect a vocabulary stretch), but the way it was written made it very easy to zoom through despite that. An interesting book is always faster than a boring one.

There is some 関西弁 and casual speech, as well as a bit of formal speech near the end of the book.

I personally felt the ending was a bit weak and felt rather rushed compared to the rest of the book. The start of the book felt gritty and realistic (or realistic enough) and the further through I got the more it drifted away from that.

I still enjoyed it over all and plan to read the second book in the series.

edit: I stopped reading the second book a few chapters in. It's not nearly as good.

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