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As a note I listened to the audiobook version, I do not own the text. I also stopped 1/3 of the way through.
For difficulty as a learner this felt slightly towards the upper edge of the pack insofar as mass market young adult everyday-life fiction goes.
I suspect I might had enjoyed this more if I read the text and did not listen to the audio book as I had a similar issue as with よるのばけもの where the main female voice actress's performance drove me absolutely batty. I suppose she was trying to sound 'young', but missed the mark.
Incredibly concise and simplified plot: Proclaimed loner meets girl about to die. It felt oddly similar to 世界から猫が消えたなら but with younger characters and told from the perspective of someone knowing another person will die. I didn't ever feel any connection to the characters and was left wanting more...substance or depth, I suppose. As this is my second book by 住野よる that I didn't enjoy, I suspect I just don't like his writing style.